Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Are you feeling completely overwhelmed at work? Are you feeling like you are just barely treading water on your day off? Are you waiting for that magic meditation that will make it all manageable and not take all of your time to get done? Too many times when the shit is hitting the fan we…

Hormones are like chemical messengers and govern nearly every cellular action in our body. As healthcare professionals stress is a fact of life. We work long hours; we work under impossible demands and with high volumes of patients. We also absorb our patient’s emotional pains and often reflect those symptoms physically. While important, our sex…

People often seem to marvel at my “motivation” to maintain a diet. Or climb a mountain, or maintain an exercise routine, or run my own business while working full time. Some say it’s because I have strong will power. But the truth is, we all have the same will power. I just have an established…

I get it. That couch is so comfy. I actually spend a decent amount of time on mine. I also have cats, and they LOVE lap time. Who can resist that? Every cat person knows that once the cat is there, you are stuck. But fact of the matter is, our bodies were DESIGNED to…

We’ve all heard our bodies are made up of mostly water (2/3 actually). We all know we should drink more water. But why don’t we? It’s boring. I forget. I don’t feel thirsty. There is water in the coffee/soda/juice I drink, so I have to be getting enough. The reasons are endless. But here is…

We have all heard it, you can’t take care of others if you aren’t taking care of yourself. It’s true. So why don’t we do it? It’s hard to find the time. Maybe you don’t have the energy. Or maybe you just think it’s selfish or indulgent. Taking care of yourself is absolutely not selfish.…

Actually more than 10 years if you count my time as a caregiver. I started my time in healthcare as a caregiver for my then-husband. He was injured in Iraq, suffering a gun shot to his spine making him a paraplegic. Several years after our divorce, when I was ready to return to school, I…

Here we are again. The Holidays. The parties. The shopping. The gatherings. The stress. The food. At least it’s cold out so we can layer on the clothes an hide those extra pounds we gained…until we have to go to a fancy Christmas party, or it’s New Year’s Eve and we wanted to wear a…

Why is it that we eat all of the junk food when all we really want is to loose weight? Why do we stop going to the gym after we have fully developed that habit of going every week? Why do we gain the weight back after we have worked so hard to keep it…

I work in health care. Those of us in health care, we are givers. It is ingrained in us to care for others, and in literal terms, it often means someone might die if we put ourselves first. So where do we draw the line? And why do we let this innate sense of devotion…