Pilar Gerasimo
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The Pursuit of Healthiness
None of the positive changes we hope to make as a society can be sustained without the energy and resilience of a whole lot of healthy, vital people.
How to Embrace Your Changing Body as You Become More Fit and Lose Weight
Your body is changing for the better. But is your brain on board? A cognitive psychologist explains how to be on the lookout for the unconscious “mental frames” that can bring your progress to a halt.
What’s Your Plan?
At several points in our lifetimes, most of us wind up pondering what the heck we are doing here, and what we want to do next.
Happy Endings
In the rush and muddle of our daily lives, though, we sometimes neglect to appreciate how much of our present reality hinges on the course of events that could have turned out very differently.
Refill, Please!
An alarming convergence of overlapping Gantt charts, my life suddenly looks like it’s being meted out in 15-minute increments – because it is.
A Meditation on Nothing
There’s something about the promise of variety, novelty and sheer quantity that appeals powerfully to us.
Question Authority
When it comes to health and fitness information, authoritative organizations may not be your best source of advice.
The Ways of the Worried Well
These days, frankly, if you’re not at least a little concerned about your health, you’re probably not paying attention.
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin P?
Even small doses of pleasure can raise our levels of immune-boosting chemicals.
How Renewable Is Your Energy?
Until we better master the art of cultivating renewable, sustainable health and vitality for ourselves, we’ll have a hard time respecting the principles on which all sustainable energy production depends.
Monitor Your Media Intake
Pilar Gerasimo on why it’s important to reflect on your media choices lately.
Practicing Change
We all have counterproductive reflexes and unconscious beliefs that stand in our way. It makes sense that we develop the courage and wisdom to face them well.
An Appetite for Integrity
It makes me happy to see that a growing number of us have lost interest in dog pills slathered in peanut butter. We’re hungry, instead, for the unvarnished, nutritious truth.
How to Reclaim Your Mornings
Start the day on your own terms, and change your life for the better.
The Dangers of Doing Too Much
It is strange, perhaps, to open an issue dedicated to helping readers get more done with a caveat about overdoing. But as a person prone to doing just that, I feel it is, um — the right thing to do.
Exchange Willpower for Willingness
We’ve been taught that following through on new year’s resolutions is all about willpower. But it turns out that willingness may be a far more valuable ally.
Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: Renegade Perspectives for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World
You want to be healthy? Well, hey, that’s wonderful! This article is designed to help you succeed.
A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World
Ten Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident
As Good as It Gets
This is the season of celebration. So let us pause a moment to reflect on all we have to be happy about, and to appreciate all the wonderful gifts the past year has delivered.
A Matter of Taste
I think it’s not often enough acknowledged that embracing healthy foods—and avoiding less healthy ones—isn’t necessarily a matter of white-knuckled willpower.