Rainbows and resilience

It’s been a while. A good friend once defined an excuse as “the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie’. So I won’t offer excuses. I’ve been bogged down in urgent tasks both important and not so important. Now it’s past time to return to creativity and vitality. I am summonsing up courage to…

Experience the exhilaration of cold exposure

Experiencing the exhilaration of an ocean dip on a cold day sparked my curiosity about cold exposure and vagal tone. The vagus nerve is the major connector between our brain and our gut and immune system. It is involved in the fight/flight response. Low vagal tone is associated with poorer health and a heightened stress…