by Kristen Horner Warren | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog
It is the holiday season and the frenetic rush is on. There are gifts to buy and parties to attend. There are family photos to be taken and annual cards to address and mail. There is unspoken pressure to be creative (Pinterest Christmas crafts, anyone?), generous,...
by Kristen Horner Warren | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog
There is one thing that my most stressed out, negative, and unhappy patients do every day, most of them without even thinking about it. It explains why they find it so hard to get traction toward the happy life that they so desperately want. Now, more than ever, I am...
by Kristen Horner Warren | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to...
by Kristen Horner Warren | Aug 12, 2015 | Blog
This is my backyard, the place where just this past weekend, I declared a final victory over fibromyalgia. As you may have read in a previous post, in 2003 I was in a major car accident and subsequently developed widespread chronic pain. Eventually I was diagnosed...
by Kristen Horner Warren | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
I highly recommend taking the 15 minutes needed to watch this TED talk by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal. The gist of the talk is this: Stress, in and of itself, is not harmful to your health. What is harmful is the belief that stress is harmful to your health....
by Kristen Horner Warren | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog
I’m like most people — this time of year I start thinking about what went well in the year past and what I want to do better next year. But if I am honest I have to say that these goals that I’ve set for myself in years past have never amounted to...
