Articles about Healing and Recovering
26 Articles

How Meditation Can Help Ease Chronic Pain
In the race to find relief, researchers are increasingly looking at non-pharmaceutical solutions like meditation.

PRACTICE: The Healing Power of Panjiri
When nothing could heal me, my mother’s panjiri did.

PRACTICE: In Times of Trouble, Turn to Dal-Chawal
Comfort food doesn’t have to be highly processed, elaborately prepared, or overly sweet. In India, simple rice and lentil dishes are the backbone of a healing diet.

FOCUS: Our Backyard Superfood
Wellness companies call roselle a “wonder leaf.” To my family, its healing properties were part of everyday life.

Own Your Healing Journey
Life tends to put us through the wringer repeatedly. By using Wholistic Wellbeing, we can learn how to soothe the blues and heal ourselves emotionally and mentally.

Moving Your Body and Breath through the Power of Yoga
There are many different kinds of yoga out there. In this article, I set out to explore their different benefits.

Beginner’s Guide to the Chakras
All that exists in the universe exists within the body.

The Wisdom of Grief

How Meditating in Your 20s Can Steer You to a Better Path
Being twenty-something is prime-time to understand your mind and heart, and to undo any intergenerational trauma.

5 Ways to Heal a Wounded Inner Child
When you feel old wounds drowning out your authentic self, use these tools to help heal your inner child.

What Happens When You Meditate Daily?
Long-term mindfulness may influence your approach to pain, inviting curiosity and acceptance rather than fear or denial.

The role of music in our Wholistic Wellbeing

The 2 Yoga Practices That Changed My Life
For some, yoga is just an exercise. For others, it's a deep spiritual path. For me, it's both these things and so much more. Yoga — and 2 styles in particular — transformed my body and my mind from the inside out.

How Food Affects our Wellbeing Daily

Transforming ecology with organic agriculture
Decades of industrial farming in India have dealt a heavy blow to the environment. But the impact is not irreversible.

Buddhism Helped Me Heal from Addiction
When I brought awareness to my dark parts and understood the chaos they were causing, my true healing began.

FERMENT: Food is Medicine
Just ask my grandmother, who is nearing 100 and has an insatiable appetite for pickles, vinegar, and other fermented delights that can help keep us healthy

Find Deep Healing Through Whirling
Whirling doesn't cause anything to happen, necessarily, but it does allow energy to shift, bringing us into a healthy balance.

5 Benefits of Chanting Mantra
When you chant mantra, you fall into a repetitive trance. This helps regulate your breath, training it into consistent rhythm.

How Meditation Helped Me Heal from the Inside Out
By losing my life as I knew it, I was given the opportunity to change everything I was doing and create a brand-new life.

To Love Myself, I First Had to Know Myself
It took a cancer diagnosis, lots of inner work, and a lifestyle change to help me realize I needed to cultivate self-love.

How Meditation Retrains Innate Self-Kindness
Our common humanity is that we all wish to contribute, and we are all made of love.

Why Mindfulness Belongs in Middle Schools
The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.

Because of Meditation, I Make Better Decisions
When I do find myself in the throws of powerful emotions like anger or self-doubt, I'm not crippled by it the way I used to be.

The Radical Act That Saved My Sanity (And Cured My Skin!)
Little by little, I started to feel like myself again — I could feel and see the shifts in my body, especially on my skin.

My Battle with Depression Changed Once I Found Meditation
I learned it's important to cry or scream if you have to. It may not feel good in the moment, but emotions will come and go.