The Dirty Truth: 5 Reasons to Sink to the Soil
Ever hear of Nature Deficit Disorder?
Probably not – it’s not in the DSM or anything. But that doesn’t mean it’s not real.
The urbanization of the world
Ever hear of Nature Deficit Disorder?
Probably not – it’s not in the DSM or anything. But that doesn’t mean it’s not real.
The urbanization of the world
Ever hear of Nature Deficit Disorder?
Probably not – it’s not in the DSM or anything. But that doesn’t mean it’s not real.
The urbanization of the world
You know how you can tell the self-care movement is making an impact?
Corporations are talking about it, integrating it in their systems, and encouraging their employees to study their own self-care needs. All to improve the corporations’ bottom lines, of course, but if an institutional body historically opposed to the needs of the individual starts touting the benefits of a movement…
It’s probably time to listen.
The thing is, most people aren’t sure how to care for themselves.
Dirty mouth?
It used to be that the mouth could clean itself. The oral microflora kept the discreet parts of your mouth running the way they should…
The teeth, gingival sulcus, tongue, cheeks, hard and soft palates, and tonsils. Each of those separate areas is its own ecosystem. And ecosystems are designed by nature to regulate themselves through a delicate balance of bacteria.
Spoiler alert: it’s actually not the first man-made plastic-eating enzyme. But it is six times faster than the last one. Let’s back up… We know
The more we’ve moved humanity indoors, automated our skills away, and gotten our experience of the world filtered and sent to us through screens… The
If human beings as a whole had figured out the secret key ingredient to falling, being, and staying in love, we’d have stopped writing about.
Alas, we haven’t. And probably won’t. Ever.
But what we have done is spent our entire collective sentient experience since the dawn of conscious personhood studying love and attraction, trying to crack the code.
And honestly? We’ve learned a lot.