Exploring the intersection of
pharmacy, mindfulness,
neuroscience, and balanced living
Well folks, we’ve reached the end of our “Next Normal Fresh Start” journey together. I’ve taken you as far as I can. Now it’s up to you. Whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not — we have much more control over how our days, weeks, months, and years unfold than we imagine. It’s just that we get stuck in certain ways of thinking, and we don’t or can’t see the possibilities in front of us...
Do you know the term “bright-line rule”? It’s a legal concept. A bright-line rule is defined as a clear, simple, and objective standard that can be applied to judge a situation. It is not open to interpretation or exception. Like a bright line on the ground — you’re either on one side or the other. For example, in the United States, the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) is 21...
Back in April, an episode of the NPR podcast Life Kit focused on how everyone might be a bit rusty in their interpersonal skills as things start to open back up and people begin socializing again. At one point, they discussed how the pandemic might have revealed the real limits of our social capacity. As the main guest — Celeste Headlee, author of the book We Need to Talk: How to Have...