Many of us on the Rewire Me staff are what you might call neuroscience nerds. We love digging in to the latest research on the brain and thinking about how it could improve people’s lives. So we couldn’t resist listening in on the presentations at “Neuroscience 2013,” a conference that brought together 30,000 neuroscientists from around the world. Among many…
The devastation wrought in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan is beyond comprehension—thousands of lives lost, entire villages obliterated, more than 500,000 people displaced, and as many as 12 million people at risk. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in recorded human history. We can’t fully process such vast suffering, but we can act with compassion by reaching…
This past summer I decided to have a small dinner party. I planned on inviting six friends over, but as summer drew to a close I realized there were many other people I wanted to see. Before I knew it, my party had grown from six to thirty-five. In order to accommodate all the guests, I needed to rent some…
We’re almost at the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but there’s an important aspect of the disease I’d like to discuss that many of us forget about: breast cancer in men. Granted, it’s about 100 times less common among men than women, but it does strike more than 2,000 men in the United States alone each year. I…
Since the launch of Rewire Me, I have been touched and honored by the opportunity to meet some of the movers and shakers in the global movement of change. Recently I was fortunate enough to have a breakfast meeting with Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio. Apart from his work in Congress, Tim Ryan is the author of A Mindful Nation…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the annual international campaign organized by major breast cancer charities to heighten awareness of the disease and raise funds for research. For me, as for many of you, this is personal, because several friends and family members I love have been affected. The women in my life who have been diagnosed with breast cancer…
When Dr. Richard Ash developed rheumatoid arthritis years ago, he began taking the standard therapy of steroids to suppress his immune system. But instead of finding relief from his symptoms over the course of long-term treatment, he incurred more suffering due to side effects from the medications. Dr. Ash felt there had to be a better way. So he looked…
This week we’re featuring a series of five conversations between Rewire Me founder Rose Caiola and Krishna Pendyala, life coach and author of Beyond the PIG and the APE. Below is the fifth installment of the series. ROSE: When and how did you get involved with Mindful Nation? KRISHNA: When my book came out in 2011, it started to resonate…
