by Dr. Steven Johnson WINTER 2021 Has your sleep changed over the last few years? Does sleep refresh and inspire you? What happens to “you” during sleep? How important are these and similar questions? Hopefully after this short essay you’ll think and feel differently about sleep. Maybe you’ll even adopt a renewed reverence and attitude about sleep. Depending on what … [Read more...] about A Short Look at Sleep Rhythms and Health
Health
Seeking Health through Touch
by Dr. Carmen Hering WINTER 2021 I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group of school teachers about how to approach the new challenges they are encountering in the classroom. After a year and a half of online learning, children have returned to school eager, but not just for learning. Students are eager for a whole host of social and sensory experiences that they … [Read more...] about Seeking Health through Touch
Youth and Nature
Dear Friends,We hope you enjoy this first episode of recorded conversation hosted by the Foundation for Health Creation (FHC). In this episode, titled “Youth and Nature” (see video below), we filmed an unscripted conversation between young people from different backgrounds and parts of the country. All of them are genuinely searching for answers through nature and new ways of … [Read more...] about Youth and Nature
Reimagining Health and Wealth
by John Bloom As young children, my brother and I would visit our grandmother at the home for the aged. She would look at us and say, even into her nineties, “If you are healthy, you are wealthy.” That was a first mysterious inkling of how simple wisdom connects apparent disparity. Now that I am ten times older than that memory, her wisdom has settled into warm appreciation … [Read more...] about Reimagining Health and Wealth
Health and Learning Are Deeply Interconnected in the Body:
An Action Guide for Policymakers Read article on Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child website … [Read more...] about Health and Learning Are Deeply Interconnected in the Body: