By Michael Mendizza — 1995
Pearce and Michael Mendizza discuss amazing human capacities and self-inflicted limitations.
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CLEAR ALL
With families around the world spending unprecedented amounts of time in close quarters – and under varying degrees of stress – emotions can run high.
Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
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The breath is the foundation of every mindfulness practice, and it is also the foundation of life. Establishing a relationship with your breath, especially while pregnant, will have lasting effects for you and the child you are bringing into the world.
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
If the threats we encounter are extreme, persistent, or frequent, we become too sensitized, overreacting to minor challenges and sometimes experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.