HEALTHY IS SEXY!

Let’s get it on … to Happy Endings in 2025, and New Beginning in 2026!

Did I get your attention!? I figure if I write one newsletter a year it better be smokin’ hot good!

Everyone thinks everyone else is having more sex than they are. Are they? And who cares! Healthy is sexy BUT are you in rhythm with nature?

I find that we are in a very fascinating place in the world right now. There are so many advances in modern technology; information is being processed at lightning speed and there are algorithms that have algorithms to gently guide us, mysteriously, behind the scenes, towards all the things we are looking for including our eclectic tastes, our political views, our fears, phobias, as well as penetrating the deep fractures in our psyche that can then fill us with doubt. Is this mystical or manipulative? Isn’t this just fear based marketing, highlighting all the things that are wrong with us skewing us to what we NEED to fix us as if we are broken?

There is a constant, CONSTANT, overwhelming influx of this information that most of us have gotten used to…or have we…. ? I cant sleep. I don’t know what to eat. Should I be on GLP? Should I take hormones? Should I…??? Podcast after podcast, so many articles, data, data, DATA overload! I’m too fat. I’m too thin. I’m too old. I’m too young. I’m not smart enough. I’m not strong enough. Am I?

I don’t know what I am meant to do with my life to give it meaning!

If you google “what is the most asked question on the internet?” it is apparently “WHAT should I watch?” ! Uggh. Does this make your heart hurt? or do you just want to know what to watch? Ha ha!

I used to take a bath, for most of my life, decades, every night before bed, light a candle, add some salts, and just sit there in the hot water for an hour. Now I binge watch Netflix. I used to wake up in the morning and journal or doodle, read; now I’m on my NYTimes APP puzzling. Its only for twenty minutes, right? But……excuses, excuses, everyone is doing it! They do more than me. Its only 20 minutes!

I miss my old bath time. I have been missing out on an essential part of nourishing my nervous system. Rest and digest, relax and reflect. I came to this revelation in the last few weeks thinking about writing this article and at first it seemed minor but its not. It’s HUGE. I have imperceptibly over time like a slow leak in a bucket, given up my free time, my time for self reflection, my time to let my mind wander, process the day, think creatively, problem solve, connect, manifest. I have chosen an addiction over self care and an addiction over intuition on how to live my damn life!

Talk about tuning out. Tune in! Do you really need a machine or an APP to tell you how you feel? if you are ovulating?, or if your slept well? Can chatGPT tell you the meaning of your life?… C’mon. Sure, it can be used as a piece of the equation, a quite possible therapeutic, interesting, immediate part if the equation if you want it to be, but it is only a piece, a part of the equation and the whole is SO much greater than its parts!

OK, So back to the sexy part! Healthy is sexy and Sexy is for YOU! When you are inner connected you are in tune with the signs of what your body needs, craves, lacks, hungers for, desires or is averse to. You are also in tune with self preservation, protection, vulnerability, in tune with what or who you don’t need, or don’t need to “fix.” Your body informs you. There is a symbiotic connection to self, to self and other, to self and nature.

This is called self-awareness. This is your intuition.

This is your algorithm or open pathway to higher consciousness. The confidence one exudes when they KNOW themselves is undeniably sexy. It’s smokin’ hot.

On the flipside: ChatGPT stands for "Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer," meaning it's a conversational AI (Chat) that generates human-like text (Generative), learns from massive datasets (Pre-trained), and uses a specific deep learning structure (Transformer) to understand context and generate responses, developed by OpenAI.

Not Sexy.

Be Sexy and BE BORED.

Tune in to your internal rhythms, take some time to ask yourself, “how do I feel?” Enjoy this quick internal check in with somatic healer Mira Hatland.

Be BORED, Pah-leeeease! My wish for you in 2026 is to be bored. Check-in to see how you actually feel. Allow yourself to get back in rhythm with nature, YOUR nature. Get Healthy, Get Sexy, Get BORED! Thats for you, by you, and no one can take that away from you. No APP can tell you who you are or what you are meant to do in this life. Remember what you came here for! Open the door to Self-Reflection. Self- Awareness.

Food As Medicine: I am not a big fan of intermittent fasting(IF). If you are under stress in general and don’t eat all day it is just causing more stress. I can’t make sense of the new trend of needing 150 grams of protein a day for most anyone. We are all different and my advice is whatever diet you consider, try it for 30 days and see how you feel.

I agree with this rule of thumb and find it to be the most sensible. In the words of Michael Pollan, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." This is a simple guide to healthy eating, emphasizing real, whole foods, moderation in calories, and prioritizing plants like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes over processed items, treating meat as a flavoring, and rejecting nutrient-focused diets for more intuitive eating based on what your ancestors would recognize as food.

Are you in rhythm with nature? Follow the Basics:

• Are you sleeping? Wake with the sun. Sleep when it’s dark. Try it!

• Are you eating and drinking water every day? Eat clean, seasonal, local. Avoid alcohol, sugar and processed food.

• Are you having regular bowel movements ? Daily elimination can reflect if you are letting go of toxins as well as emotional release.

• Are you moving your body every day? Move the body to free the mind, balance the nervous system and improve well being.

• Are you connecting with others? Use entertainment as a way to connect with others versus creating separateness.

• Are you taking time to connect with self? Contemplation and Self Reflection.

• Are you finding moments of joy? Life is messy and it is not natural to be happy every moment of every day but if you can find pockets of joy, laughter and gratitude you can stay within emotional balance.

If you are having trouble with the basics then connect with me or any of the local practitioners listed below to help you get back into your natural rhythm.

Enjoy the below featured practitioners, local community based events, classes and movement therapies to get you back into your natural rhythms. I have chosen people, places and things that have been created to stay in tune with the natural rhythms of life. It’s easy and it’s fun!

Be Kind, Be Bored, Be Sexy! Be You! This is my wish for you. To happy endings and new beginnings :)

With Love, Dr.M