Getting Undepressed Without Drugs I treat many, many sleepy people. Many of them, especially those with sleep apnea, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia, are or have been clinically depressed. Lots of them have seen their GPs and been placed on antidepressants without success. They’re already on a laundry list of medications, and in hard economic times […]
Putting life into life coaching (2/8/11)
Preparing for Life They’re everywhere, promising transformation, momentum, performance, and vision. Life coaching as a business has ballooned over the past twenty years, with tens of thousands of practitioners ranging from psychotherapists and physicians with decades of clinical experience and real wisdom to youngsters whose claims are their only claims to fame. There are educators, […]
Sleep, Memory (2/1/11)
Are Memories Permanent? The brain creates memory through a near endless conversation. To move ideas from short term, working memory to long term memory the cortex and hippocampus communicate again and again. It may take ten years or more for “permanent” memories to encode in cortical locations – where they first registered as thoughts […]
Will fabric softener make you sleep better? (1/24/11)
Can Comedians Sell Sleep? Having trouble sleeping? You’re not alone. Only about 5% of Americans claim to sleep well every night. And Proctor and Gamble now says it will help out all the rest. Their plan is to advertise Downy fabric softener as a way to sleep better – via cleaner, crisper bed sheets. And […]
Aflockalypse Now – what the birds and the bees are telling us (1/21/11)
The Birds and the Bees Love, romance, sex. That’s what the “birds and the bees” are supposed to be about. Yet recently the birds and the bees have been providing us different lessons about regeneration, the rapid process which keeps us and all the other living things alive. Many of these lessons affect our survival. […]