Dr. Janice Di Luzio

01/31/2026

Invisible toxic exposures can quietly shape mood, cognition, and mental well-being. This article examines the role of heavy metals in mental health and offers practical, food-based approaches to support detoxification and brain resilience.

01/24/2026

Eating is about both what we consume and the state in which the body receives food. From a nervous system perspective, digestion flourishes in conditions of calm, safety, and presence. This article explores food as a regulatory process, highlighting how ritual, connection, and attentiveness shape di...

01/21/2026

A Buddhist monk asked his students — If you’re carrying a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, why did you spill the coffee?

Each and every one of his students said because someone bumped into me.

No, he said, the reason why you spilled the coffee is because that’s what you were carrying in your cup. If you were carrying water, you would have spilled water.

Then he said something profound.

Whenever life shakes you, whatever you’re carrying is going to spill out. So if you’re carrying fear, jealousy, anger, greed, that’s what’s going to spill out.

But if you’re carrying love, compassion, kindness, that’s what’s going to spill out.

So, each and every day, you should pause and think to yourself, What am I carrying in my cup today?

Thich Nhat Hanh

01/18/2026

01/18/2026

Missed opportunities…

The Thought of the Day today prompts reflection on how effortlessly pivotal moments can slip by unnoticed. Christies words imply that significance is often recognised only in retrospect, when opportunities have passed or circumstances have shifted beyond recovery.

01/18/2026

Jolie’s trauma research with women…

The trauma research was built on men. The healing protocols and tools were tested on men. Then they were handed to women without asking if our disconnection or disembodiment looked the same. It doesn't. Van der Kolk began his career studying combat veterans returning from Vietnam. Levine developed S...

01/16/2026

That low-key, keep-the-peace version of you? She’s officially unavailable.

12/13/2025

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Eternal Echoes
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County Clare Cottage, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/27/2025

Autism • ADHD • Giftedness: Different pathways — overlapping brilliance We often speak about Autism, ADHD, and Giftedness as separate neurological identities — and they are. Yet, the more we learn, the more we see that these profiles aren’t distant islands, but intersecting landscapes. Som...