carmen fernandez de cordoba

She had been born in a coastal city in Andalusia. The entrance to her house began with a solemn door that spilled onto the last step of a winding staircase sprinkled with small tiles alternating black and white, like an analogy of what her childhood would become. That geometry, present beneath her feet, would end up as a metaphor throughout her entire life. Orphaned of her father at an early age, she became the shoulder to cry on for a young widow raised for little more than being a good...

Before recommending specific conscious breathing practices, it is essential to understand how our body reacts to sustained stress responses and to review some of the new studies in the field of epigenetics. It is also important to recognize that bringing awareness to something as automatic as breathing is the first challenge we must integrate into our habits. We know it’s not an easy task, but the effort is worth it. The reward? Becoming increasingly self-sufficient in preserving our own...

How many times have we walked into the kitchen thinking we’re hungry, only to find ourselves scanning every shelf in the fridge or the pantry looking for something tempting to put in our mouth? And, how many times have we actually noticed that boredom, fatigue, or anxiety are the real  emotional drivers convincing us that we somehow “deserve” a reward? The truth is that this need to fill a void has little to do with hunger. The relationship between what we eat and our emotional states is much...