On the outside, I was living a happy childhood, but on the inside, my body was going bonkers. As told through my first column, the mere smell of chocolate made my head feel like it was going to explode. But chocolate wasn’t the only monster that brought on this horrifying pain that made me lie […]

How did my fascination with food begin? It started with a kiss … a Hersey kiss that is. At age seven, I was barreling down the stairs on Christmas morning as my sister and I discovered the mound of presents under the Christmas tree. Among them was a giant Hersey kiss. We could think of […]

Why Yoga? People come to the mat for a variety of reasons … to stretch tight muscles … to reduce stress and anxiety … to improve posture … to quiet the mind … or simply because it’s “trendy.” Yet regardless of the initial reason, a regular practice begins to reveal countless benefits and a new […]

I was getting migraines – that much we knew. To get me off the merry-go-round of constant pain and sickness, I took the medicine the doctor prescribed. But taking medicine certainly wasn’t cool as a kid. Medicine was for old people, not me. Plus it made my already out-of-sorts tweenage body feel even more unfamiliar […]