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Do you trust yourself? Can you?
What would it mean to trust yourself? Is it possible? What's the implication of not trusting yourself?
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The Medicine for What Ails Us: On Aliveness, Beauty, and the Integrity of Being
A Meditation on Chronic Illness and Nature's Wisdom
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What if Your Anxiety Isn't Yours? On Constitution and Ancestral Karma.
An exploration of Prakriti (प्रकृति), ancestral karma, and how your Ayurvedic constitution holds the key to healing. A personal essay on Samkhya and the…
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How I Eat part 2 : Family History
“When diet is wrong, treatment is of no use. When diet is correct, treatment is of no need.” ―Ayurvedic proverb
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Faith is Trust in Life
My faith was awakened gradually, then all at once. I’m not only talking about a religious or a metaphysical sentiment, I mean trust.
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June 2025

Acceptance is the Prerequisite for Everything
What if living with chronic illness wasn't about trying to fix it and get better?
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The Living Labyrinth: A Chronic Illness Peer Group
This is an invitation open to all who live and have lived with chronic illness of any kind—recently diagnosed, long-lived, or unrecognized by medicine.
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Relapse-Remission
Long-term illness is defined by its cycles. There's always some event that sets the stage. A flu upsets the autoimmune balance.
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How I Eat And Why (part 1)
I mention food in every conversation about remission. I have avoided writing about it so far because it's easier to mention it offhand as 'a thing…
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May 2025

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