Dismissal, gaslighting and biological sex discrimination between male and female patients is a path to medical trauma. It prevents women from reporting symptoms and interferes with and delays treatment and can lead to more negative health outcomes across the board.  Not to mention triggering long term chronic pain, as well as mismanaged metabolic diseases as we age.

Medicine is now big business where patients are churned through the office without a second glance. Unless you’re a man. There is to this day a pattern of dismissal that is compounded by a lack of value placed on the female patient's lived experience and a distinct bias and inequality when it comes to research and precision guidelines for women.  This is not a hysterical statement. The heartbreaking statistics don’t lie. Our work IN today is a mix of healthcare history and a rebellious call to action for women everywhere to stand up, challenge the establishment and raise the standards of care for themselves and our daughters. 

One of the most powerful tools we have to build resilience and overcome chronic stress and trauma is connection. It’s the first thing that is sacrificed in the face of stress injury and yet it is the number one thing we need if we’re going to heal.

In health and wellness, connection has become an overused meaningless word. Just like the words wellness and health. Our work IN today is a deep dive into some of the less obvious meanings of connection and how we can use it beyond the obvious to get and stay healthier physically, mentally and emotionally.

Sleep is a hard thing. Good sleep is even harder.The complexity of our network of systems makes it even harder to isolate the keys to getting a great night’s sleep when literally anything and everything can disturb our sleep. While occasional sleep disturbances can be normal for sure, long term sleep disruption is not. Our work IN this week is changing the way we look at the complex puzzle of sleep from a nice to have to a non negotiable priority in our health.

Eating “right” is a hard thing but not because it’s actually hard to do. Experts keep changing their minds, making unsupported nutrition recommendations that are riddled with conflicts of interest and have resulted in the exact opposite of health in the real world. That’s confusing and annoying and challenging but that’s not really what makes it hard either. Eating right is hard because we have outsourced our common sense when it comes to basic biology of nourishment for the bodies we live in. That’s our work IN today. We’re looking at 5 simple ways to reclaim the uncommon sense around nutrition in order to nourish the body, mind and nervous system.

Goldilocks got it wrong. At least when it comes to exercise. Hard is sexy. Hard is effective. Hard makes everything easier. Hard exercise is required to maintain and build the kind of muscle that supports health span not just life span. That’s our Work IN today. 3 necessary components in any health plan to find ease in the kind of hard effort that’s required for longevity while still supporting our nervous system.