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My Post-Pandemic Letter to You
My Post-Pandemic Letter to You(No it's not over yet but let's pretend just for a minute...)I wanted to write to let you know how much you meant to me during the pandemic of 2020-2021. Remember the initial months? Vacations/reunions/trips/games/classes were cancelled, there were curfews. Schools and gyms closed, we all worked and cooked at home. Everything fun was cancelled. We could not be social, there was nowhere to go, no relief. We were wiping down groceries, hunkering down in panic and...
Explaining Football Rules to my Teenage Daughter and Windshield Time
Yesterday I texted my 16 year old daughter (who was in the house, upstairs): “The Superbowl is on, do you want to watch the halftime show with me?” (She will be 17 in 10 days.) She likes the privacy of her space and doesn’t like me knocking on her door every time I have a question or a thought. We have discussed it and I said I can give her the respect of privacy in her room. So we text in the house (don’t judge me). She texts back: “Yes I want to watch it with you, I’ll come down.” This is...
Exercise, Vaccines and the Immune system
Hi friends,I wanted to share with you a few new things I found in my reading this week. 1. Exercise may help reduce the effects of acute respiratory failure in Covid patients: “Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EcSOD) is an antioxidant that hunts down harmful free radicals, protecting our tissues and helping to prevent disease. Our muscles naturally make EcSOD, secreting it into the circulation to allow binding to other vital organs, .... its production is enhanced by...
The Placebo Effect
Hi friends, Did you know that placebo treatments have been shown to work just as well as prescription treatments, even if people know they are taking a placebo (an "honest placebo")? Did you know that doctors who listen to and touch their patients can help their patients recover faster than doctors who don't make eye contact and who seem "cold" rather than "warm"? Did you know that it is possible to train your mind to believe it...
How to Truly Relax
Friends,How are you doing? What I mean is, how are you really doing? Our world keeps getting upended and it looks like it will continue to do so. Our sensations of fear and stress are experienced through and rooted in the chemistry of our bodies.When the body is stressed, the body prepares for action: adrenalin and cortisol increase heart and respiration rate, blood vessels dilate, our senses become sharper. Following a...
A Little Math for 2020
Friends,For the end of 2020, I decided to do a little math. Check it out. Mar-Dec 2020 Zoom classes Bang classes with Holly and Meg: 108 classes, 198 participants Yoga with Holly: 72 classes, 152 participants Yoga with Arlington County’s Healthsmart program: 40 classes, over 100 participants per month Yoga for Ft Lee Army Logistics School PT Training Group: 9 classes, 89 participants Bang Practice: 3 classes, 20 instructors Beer Yoga with Abella Yoga: 7 classes, 39 participants...
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