pilgrim Pathway

Issues


  • Confronting Your Emotional Mirror

    How comfortable are you with your emotions?  Are you the type of person who knows they are there but sweeps them under the carpet?  What does it take for you to pay attention to how you’re feeling?  When coping with a chronic or life-altering diagnosis your emotions are not simply reactions; they are a barometer…

  • Change One Thing to Improve Your Health

    I’ve talked about change in the past but today I’m focusing on our the fallacy related to our flexibility in the world.  I don’t mean being able to bend our bodies into contortionist poses, I’m talking about being open to a shift in perspective.  Cheri Huber has a book, “How you do anything is how…

  • Optimism by Proxy

    When taking on a life-altering diagnosis every article, interview, television show and family member will tell us to be optimistic.  They don’t always use that word.  They may tell us to “keep the faith” or “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle” or “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”, easy for them…

  • Why Do We Help Diseases Hurt Us?

    There has been a dramatic increase in research linking lifestyle to health.  It’s not uncommon to see on the news most evenings some story about how our lifestyle interacts with our health.  As more and more stories rise in our consciousness, how can we ignore them?  Don’t we feel that we have some responsibility for…