What is the connection between a cell membrane and the human brain? A lot, according to cell biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton, whose book The Biology of Belief, details reasons why we can be the creators of our own destiny. A renowned cell biologist and former professor at the University Of Wisconsin Medical School, Bruce Lipton [...]
Copyright © 2006 Mary Desaulniers Picture this—a woman in a red bodysuit, back arched on a narrow perch. A bar holds the base of her neck, a seat holds the small of her back as her body, well-toned, flexible with full musculature, secures itself onto the perch. Her left leg, straight and taut, is held [...]
Copyright © 2006 Mary Desaulniers Ilana Rubenfeld Ph.D knows first hand what having a conversation with your body means. A gifted violinist at the Julliard School of Music, Rubenfeld was well on her way to become the first woman conductor in the music scene when a debilitating back spasm cut short her music career. It [...]
We only have to look at a Titian painting to recognize that at one point in the history of Western culture, fat was considered beautiful. Before the 20th Century, corpulence was touted as a sign of wealth and luxury, largely because most people were barely surviving on a meager existence. Ironically, now in our era [...]
Copyright © 2006 Mary Desaulniers You see them everywhere—magazines featuring emaciated teen models with brash, defiant looks that say “We express ourselves,” their arms and ankles glistening with fashion accessories. The definition of “cool chick” in another magazine is a glossy-lipped, half-woman, half-child peeking ambivalently behind a set of heavily mascared eyes. ”I am confection,” [...]
Copyright © 2006 Mary Desaulniers Reading Julia Cameron’s The Sound of Paper is like revisiting an old friend. For more than fifteen years, her morning pages ( three uncensored pages written every morning fresh out of bed) have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear and inertia about putting [...]
