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Every week, Dr. Justin Altschuler writes a post that provides new insight and perspective into the familiar parts of life, helping readers live a healthy, happy, meaningful life.
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts “Stress” is one of the most frequent reasons I hear when people try to describe what ails them, and what limits taking care of ourselves. It gets in the way of exercising, interferes with sleep, turns food into a coping mechanism, makes real relaxation elusive, and leads to that extra drink (or two) in the evening. Because chronic stress affects our health, we spend a lot of time in...
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts When it comes to taking care of our health, my job is often less about delivering new information and more about helping people problem-solve, reframe their assumptions, and remember what they already know. Most of us don’t need to be told that exercise matters, vegetables are good, or sleep is essential. And yet, many of us struggle to exercise enough, eat well, or get to bed on time....
Doc’s Thoughts Broaden your perspective. Live a happy, healthy, meaningful life. Subscribe to Doc's Thoughts I recently had a conversation with a patient about how hard recovery is– facing challenges, embracing honesty– there’s a whole suite of difficulties involved. And in truth, recovery is really hard. But continuing to drink or use drugs is also really hard. I think about this a lot when talking about difficult, uncomfortable decisions that we must make in our lives. We think that there...