EPISODE 398: Better Your Relationship

“I’m not sure you feel things the way I do,” she said. “I feel everything.” I was twenty-one, she was twenty-three. The window looked out at a brick wall in my Lower East Side apartment. “You’re lost in your books and your work. I feel you don’t even see me.”

EPISODE 397: 13 Years Training Yoga Teachers

I always wanted to be a writer. Kerouac, Hemingway, and Carver were my heroes. Later it was playwrights Kushner, Ibsen, and Chekov. I’d drag home backpacks full of books from the public library, and I finagled my way into just about every theater I could find in New York City from Broadway to deep Brooklyn fringe venues. If you met me at age 20, you’d never predict I’d be teaching backbends and low glycemic diets at age 40 – but here we are.

EPISODE 396: Our Mental Health Crisis

The three largest mental health facilities in the USA are Rickers, Cooks Country and LA Twin Towers Jails. The mentally ill have literally been relegated to prisons since there are so few public resources for those in need. This is devastating to the mentally ill, of course, but also to their families, neighbors and communities who are forever impacted.

EPISODE 395: You Are What Your Grandparents Ate

Two mice are genetically identical, but one ends up obese and yellow and the other ends up mousy brown and healthy as expected. What’s the difference? The mutated mouse’s mother was undernourished during pregnancy, and different genes switched on. Genetics loaded the gun, epigenetics pulled the trigger.