Selfcare

Breathing is an activity most of us don't think about, but there are many ways to breathe and we breathe differently in different situations. Breathing a certain way can assist us in how we relate to a situation, and therefore impact our wellness.

Again and again in my hours with college and grad students I learn of families who stressed excellence in achievement above all else.

Agreed, as a nation we most certainly need intelligent HealthCare and Health Insurance reform, but what we are in just as much need of is SelfCare Reform.

If every older person were guaranteed a physician with time to talk about life and ways to live it more fully, as well as to discuss the best ways to deal with the inevitability of death, debates about "death panels" would wither.

I hadn't planned on going, but then another doctor as young as I was then called me up, desperate for help. That's how I found myself on a plane to Bethel, N.Y. with Joan Baez.