A grain of salt: The detrimental danger of goal setting
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,” …
Tagged: health
A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
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 …
A grain of salt: The happiness project
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 …
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
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 …
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Health
By Deb Ruehle
Reader Contributor
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” …
A grain of salt: Illness is not a weakness
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long …
A grain of salt: Getting back to the basics
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
“Do you believe in those IV infusions as a hangover cure?” a family member asked me as he loaded some hotel pancakes onto his plate. …
A grain of salt: Why your tribe is essential
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
A few years ago I added some questions about “support systems” to my patient intake questionnaire. I had been hearing a lot of the same, …
Shake, Rattle and Roll: My new superpower
By A.C. Woolnough
Reader Columnist
Many people think of Parkinson’s disease as afflicting only older people. They conjure up an image of someone with stooped posture, bent over a cane, …
A grain of salt: Summer in Sandpoint — one long booze session
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Let’s be clear on some basic facts before we disappoint our readers today: There are nearly zero scientifically-proven health benefits to drinking alcohol.
I know. …
