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Dr. Sara's Top 8 Hormone Tests: Find Your Blind Spots + Track Your Progress
If you read O Magazine as avidly as I, you know that December features a story on the quantified self, called Beyond Measure. Author Catherine Price describes the Hawthorne Effect, which is the phenomenon that we behave differently when watched, or put another way: when your yoga teacher gazes at you in class, your…
Making a Stop-Doing List and Checking It Twice
By Guest Writer Rosie Vega If I had to pick one song that best fits my life it would have to be “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” by Warren Zevon, from his self-titled 1975 debut album. It seems that I’ve been chronically underslept for decades. And, like Warren, I figured it was something I could…
Low Thyroid: Do you have a slow brain, weight gain or thyroid hair?
This week in Mission Ignition we are taking on the thyroid. Thought I’d share. Do you have, or have you experienced in the past… Hair loss, including of the outer third of your eyebrows and/or eyelashes (which indicates both a beauty crisis and a hormonal imbalance)? Dry skin? Dry, straw-like hair? Fluid retention or swollen…
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
By Guest Writer Rosie Vega A now largely forgotten 1961 Broadway show, “Stop the World—I Want to Get Off,” is more memorable for its title, which became a pop culture catch phrase for a while, than the musical itself. According to Broadway insider Oscar Levant, the creators took it from a graffito scrawled on a…
Mission Ignition Day 10: Female Sacred Anatomy with Ellen Heed
We are now 10 days into Module 1 of Mission Ignition. Yesterday we had a fascinating interview with Ellen Heed. Ellen is a somatic genius who has found myriad ways to connect to the primacy of felt experience. We planned to talk about Female Sacred Anatomy – particularly the neurology of women as a divine…
Are You a Type C Personality? How to Transition from Cortisol Crazed to Calm & Connected
By guest blogger Michelle Leath Top 3 Signs That You Have Elevated Cortisol Levels #1: You seem to have developed a stubborn muffin-top. #2: You feel constantly in a hurry, rushed, like you are running out of time. #3: You are looking for the quickest fix to your cortisol problem! We’ve been hearing a lot…
Tired of Being Too Tired for Sex
By guest blogger Rosie Vega When I first heard about Mission Ignition, I thought maybe it wasn’t for me, because I don’t feel like the zing is gone in my sex life with my husband. We are both still madly in love after 30 years of marriage, and we have passionate, unboring sex. But I…
What’s your Distractibility score? 8 questions for you.
Last week 100 of you skimmed through my email on ADD, hit reply to say, ‘Dr. Sara, that’s me!’ but then forgot what you were supposed to be doing, and went to the kitchen for a snack. This happens to me a lot. How do you know if it’s a symptom of stress, internet brain,…
Want to get your questions answered?
Sign up for my Q&A – Thursday 10/20/11 at 10am Pacific Register right here and you’ll be directed to ask a question, if you want! We’ve got some great questions in the hopper, including: I’m about to surrender to the idea of being 10+ pounds overweight. Exercise and a reasonable diet aren’t working. Any recommendations?…