by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 25, 2018 | Book Reviews, Get Creative
My friend Rose very kindly sent me the book “Solve for Happy“. It’s about engineering your path to joy written by Mo Gawdat, the the chief business officer at Google X. He is an engineer so he approaches the problem with the engineering methodology of breaking down...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
I thought this was such a good idea! A Happiness Health Checklist. A physician asked a question to Dr. Gabor Mate during one of his talks and pointed out that she has so many required physical tests to run when assessing a patient, but there is no screening tool to...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Apr 13, 2018 | Book Reviews, Primal Diet
Elle Russ has a really great section in her book The Paleo Thyroid Solution about the testing that you need done if you suspect you have a thyroid problem. The issue is I understand, that standard medical practitioners are only usually testing T4 and TSH levels to...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Apr 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
My friend Rose sent me the book “Solve for Happy“. Thanks Rose! At the start of the book, Mo Gawdat makes one of the best observations. It took me a bit to wrap my head around this idea. It’s so simple. He says happiness is our default state. Huh? We are born happy....
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Feb 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
I just finished reading Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. It is about over coming challenges, feeling resilient and finding happiness. On page 77 they write this great quote from Albert Camus and explain that when you can no longer change a situation, you...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Nov 4, 2017 | Book Reviews
According to Elle Russ chronic disease started in China about 12,000 years ago with the development of agriculture and introduction of grains into the diet and they correspond to the reign of Shennong, the “Emperor of the Five Grains”. I think he’d get a bit of a bad...
