Start Your Day Calm: Simple Morning Strategies

Tip 1: don’t check your phone: Ease your body into wakefulness. When you first wake up, your brain is switching from delta waves, which occur during deep sleep, to theta waves (think daydreaming mode), to producing alpha waves (here, you’re awake, but the brain is still not quite ready to tackle stressors and sensations of […]

Exploring Nature’s Geometry: Trees and Our Bodies

How Trees and Blood Vessels Share a Hidden Math: Every so often, life gives us moments so enchanting they feel like pages from a storybook. Recently, on an unusually warm winter night, we took my daughter’s little piano outside, and under a canopy of stars, she played. She’s only 16 months old, but her intuitive […]