How Long Does It Take to Regulate Your Nervous System?
Two weeks into breathwork and not sure it's working? How long it really takes to regulate your nervous system, why it never gets permanent, and why that's good news.
Field of Notes
Wellness routines, the science of calm, and the occasional dispatch from the forest.
Recovery Isn't Lazy: Why It's Part of the Work, Not a Break
Recovery isn't lazy and it isn't taking a break. Why it's part of the strategy to reach your goals, and how to build it into a normal day in five minute doses.
How to Sleep Better With a Stack of Small, Boring Habits
It took me about 10 years of experimenting to learn there was no one thing for sleep. The small habits that brought it back, and how to build your own stack.
The Best Hinoki Essential Oil: How to Choose a Real One
The same word goes on wood oil, leaf oil, root oil, a few other trees and a lot of perfume. Five things to check before you buy hinoki oil.
My Stupid Simple Wellness Routine at 41 (What I Actually Do)
The whole routine behind being in the best shape of my life at 41, from morning mobility to hinoki and 4-7-8 at bedtime, and why the list is short on purpose.
Over Optimizing Your Health Keeps You Stuck in Go Mode
Doing more than ever and still feeling run down? Why over optimizing your health is a recovery problem, and why go mode makes every hack sound like the answer.
Hinoki Forests of Japan: Where Forest Bathing Began
Where hinoki grows, the Kiso forest where shinrin-yoku started, the forest in Mie where my oil comes from, and how to bring a bit of it home.
Daylight Saving Time Sleep: How to Fall Back Without the Fog
Clocks go back Sunday, November 1. A four night shift, morning light and one bedtime cue that keeps your sleep steady through the change.
Hinoki Tub: Why Japan's Onsen Baths Are Made From Hinoki
What a hinoki bath is, why the wood was chosen, what owning one takes, and how to get close to the feeling without one.