Recent content by Jerseygirl

I am a registered nurse, in my sixties, retired. I have practiced in various health care settings for 40 years. My professional experiences taught me a lot about health, illness, disease, birth, death. I thought that I understood at a basic level, pretty much what there was to know about stress...

The one thing that I have been doing pretty consistently every day re mindfulness work is to is to read an entry from "A Year With Rumi", daily readings translated by Colemen Parks. Rumi was a Sufi poet. I am not religious but these short poems take me right to a peaceful, calm place of...

A week ago today I stopped taking an over the counter NSAID (Aleve) twice a day for severe, intermittent knee pain that began abruptly and with much inducement of fear, about 3 months ago. Stopping the drug was prompted by my first access of this web site and spending a few hours...