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The Awe Effect: Finding Wonder in Everyday Life
How Embracing Awe Can Transform Our Minds, and is a Missing Piece in Mental Health Care Programs Mosh pits don’t exactly have a reputation for being the friendliest of places. Sure, there are flying elbows, stepped-on toes, and the occasional injury (if it’s not done...
Ghosts in the Machine
The Importance of Human Relationships in Medicine The year is 1870… it is a dark and stormy night in New York, as a young woman is overcome by the spirits swirling around her. We don’t know her name, just that she has been touched by the loss of her mother to cholera...
Walk it Off
Step Into Wellness: Rediscover Joy, Health, and Connection One Walk at a Time Winding gothic streets, the alluring smell of tapas, and a pronounced lack of Chicago road rage made Barcelona a paradise to walk through. I was recently lucky enough to take a trip there,...
A Light on Loneliness
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks painting is a quintessentially American image, that currently hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago. You’ve likely seen this picture many times, but like everything in plain sight, it has probably become invisible to you. Looking through the...
Momento Mori
Remember you will die It was January 2020 and I was visiting Philadelphia. For many of us, just the date January 2020 is enough to send a shiver down our spines, but the chill was a lot more literal then, as a cold front engulfed the city. I was relieved when I set...
A Grave Reminder
The Importance of Vaccines and Community Protection Farewell darlings we have laid you side by side beneath this sod. Buds of earth all fadeless blooming in the garden of our God.Sleep dear ones, in thy quiet bed Among those fading flowers. And we will strive to feel...





