Photo by Radu Florin on Unsplash I have an enormous respect for the mind-body connection after I survived a rare and deadly coronary dissection (literally a broken heart), and then watched my husband and my own family attack me when I was most vulnerable proving that I built my entire life around people who never loved me and were capable of committing downright evil acts against me. Waves of grief washed over me for a few days as I mourned a much more tragic and painful end

Photo by niklas_hamann on Unsplash Gaslighting is a sophisticated manipulation tactic which certain types of personalities use to create doubt in the minds of others. Here’s how it works and what to watch out for. In a stage play and suspense thriller from the 1930s entitled “Gas Light,” a conniving husband tries to make the wife he wishes to get rid of think she is losing her mind by making subtle changes in her environment, including slowly and steadily dimming the flame on

I have told the story of how I had a stress-related heart attack as a young, otherwise healthy mother of two little kids back in 2001. Since then I have had enormous respect for the mind-body connection and the danger of chronic stress. The problem for most American women today is that we have normalized a lifestyle that cannot be maintained without significant cost to our long term health and happiness. The stress in my life almost killed me, and I had to learn a new, bett