You cannot make an informed choice about something you’ve stopped noticing. Something can become part of your normal environment long before you ever stop to ask whether you actually want it there.

Not all movement gives us the same experience, even when our bodies are doing the work.

We use the word energy all the time. We say we have none left, that someone changed the energy in a room, that certain foods give us energy, or that getting outside and moving can somehow make us feel more alive. Most of us recognize these experiences immediately, but we rarely stop to ask what is actually happening, why our energy can change so quickly, or how much of what we feel each day may be influenced by what we eat, how we move, and the people around us,

It isn't simply a place where vegetables grow. It is a small living system — soil, roots, insects, rain, sun, compost, weeds, vegetables, and people all interacting with one another. As our weather becomes hotter and less predictable, perhaps those of us who grow even some of our own food can learn a few things from the idea of climate-resilient farming. We don't need hundreds of acres to use the principles.

The cuddly baby becomes the fiercely independent toddler. The toddler becomes the child with questions about absolutely everything. The child becomes the preteen who suddenly has opinions about clothes, music, privacy, friends — and, occasionally, the astonishing incompetence of every adult in the house.

How do you let your child become their own person without losing the relationship that helped them become one?

Long before January meant resolutions, diets, gym memberships, and promises about what we were going to do differently, September was already teaching us what a new beginning felt like. For twelve or thirteen years, and considerably longer for anyone who continued into college or university, our lives were divided not primarily by calendar years but by school years, and every September we crossed a very clear boundary from the person we had been into the person we were now ex

What began as one of our weekly experiments has now grown into the Tropical Nectar Collection, and this week we're finally introducing it properly into the Casaroma line and making it available on the website.

In The Cost of Never Stopping, we spent a lot of time talking about how busy we have become, but one of the most important things we discovered was that being busy doesn't necessarily mean being physically active. We can have an exhausting day mentally and emotionally while our bodies have barely changed position, or we can have a day in which our bodies have been working almost constantly while our minds are dealing with their own demands at the same time.

What Happened Before You Finally Ate? When we talk about nutrition, we almost always begin with the food. What did you eat? Was there enough protein? Were there vegetables on the plate? How much sugar did you have? Were the carbohydrates good ones? All of those questions can be useful, but after everything we have been talking about in this Wellness Letter, I think there may be another question we need to ask first: what happened during the hours before you finally sat down

How many times have you heard someone say, “Where does the time go?” or “I can't believe it's August already”? We talk about time as though something has happened to it, as though the years are moving faster, the weeks have somehow become shorter, and there simply aren't as many hours in a day as there used to be. Of course, there are. We have exactly the same twenty-four hours that we had in 1986, 1996, or 2006, and yet for many of us those hours feel very different. Maybe w

One of the ideas behind Movement Matters was that we don't always need to find another large block of time in an already busy day before we can move more. There are little pockets of waiting time already built into our routines — the kettle is boiling, supper is cooking, the microwave is running, or we're standing at the counter waiting for the next thing.

Your Body Was Designed to Move There is a saying that has stayed with me for many years: "Motion is lotion." It sounds simple, but there's a great deal of truth behind it. Our bodies were designed to move. Every muscle, joint, tendon, ligament, and bone depends on regular movement to stay healthy and continue doing the jobs they were created to do. Movement helps keep our joints flexible, our muscles strong, our circulation flowing, and our balance working well. It even supp