A Grain of Salt: A health column… sort of
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
As a natural health practitioner, it seems rather reasonable that my expectation of the human body is as follows: give it what it needs, and …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
As a natural health practitioner, it seems rather reasonable that my expectation of the human body is as follows: give it what it needs, and …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It should come as no surprise that if there is any means of dissociating from stress, discomfort, emotions, boredom, intrusive thoughts, yammering children, apocalyptic outbreaks …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When my granny died, I was half a world away in India. I had seen her just days before at her home in Oregon, where …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Okay world, that’s enough.
I’m not quite certain where it began — though I suspect there are some strong roots in the Old Testament — …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
I have decided that living with trauma is kind of like having emotional fibromyalgia. Some days, everything hurts and all the inexplicable tender parts feel …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
There’s a sort of pass/fail culture happening in, well, pretty much everything we do these days. We set lofty intentions and label them as “goals,” …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa …
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