December 2015

- Terry Brezsny Ballantyne

Hug Power

December 19, 2015What are you looking forward to in 2016? Let’s hope it is the state altering power of touch. While even our touch receptors start to betray us in our 20s, diminishing by about 1% a year, our centenarians still appreciate a good, ( but gentle please) hug. Many of your friends may have lost a spouse and that sense of touch is always missed, even if they don’t mention it.   It they were warring spouses, then they were suffering from a deficit of touch even...

- Terry Brezsny Ballantyne

Get Lucky for 2016

December 14, 2015Well, you made it another New Year's.  It's time to accept that you may be headed to the elite status of healthy,  active, nonagenarian. So accept the role and define it for 2016!  For fun, try starting a family tradition now! Many cultures have traditions to ring in the New Year and ensure anything from abundance and prosperity to romantic joy and harmony. These are fun traditions to start in your family or with friends and fun to carry on every year. There is a...

- Terry Brezsny Ballantyne

Dirty Little Secrets

December 7, 2015Our culture tends to romanticize things or speak in euphemisms about the hard stuff. Nobody tells new mothers just how challenging the 24 hour presence of a newborn is. It would sound ungrateful. We soldiered on in relative silence, and unless you have the luxury and the joy of a family nearby that consists of supportive women: loving and wise aunts, grandparents and a trusted mother, it is a daunting stretch those first months and then really the first years. Spreading the responsibility helps both...