by Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN | Jun 21, 2023 | Emotional Health
Getting and staying open to fear is key. Resist closing down. Keep the pain moving. Choose to free yourself from anguish. You might feel it for a few moments, to a few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years. But whatever you do, don’t shut it down. When you...
by Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN | Jun 14, 2023 | Energy
With each step entering deeper into the forest, you can be invited into the same world all of our ancestors knew how to thrive in. Bending down to touch the water, or even a mushroom can remind us of our hunter and gatherer family who came before us. Skip a stone...
by Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN | Jun 7, 2023 | Nutrition
There is a relationship between mental health and diet. It’s a topic I’ve researched and spoke on over the decades, and there is evidence to support “We Are What We Eat” – as the German Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (when he was ~40 years young, back in 1848) said. And...
by Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN | May 31, 2023 | Nutrition
Besides drinking enough water, sleep is one of our most basic needs to survive. And yet, we cannot seem to get enough sleep. Poor sleep hygiene includes inadequate sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Many of us have sleep disorders too (like insomnia or sleep...
by Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN | May 24, 2023 | Rise Above
In remembrance of my father, whom I wrote this poem for on May 24, 2021, his 75th birthday when I found him and my mother ill in their home. I was blessed to have been able to read it to him on his death bed in the Intensive Care Unit, 9 days later, on June 2, 2021....
