Tag: #rootcause

Keep Asking Why?

Keep Asking Why?

It’s just stressIt’s in my genesIt’s no big dealI’m just getting olderThey’re just getting better at diagnosing these thingsI’m just tiredI’ve always had this I’ve found myself thinking or saying many of these things. I’ve heard many people I love express similar...
Symptom Whack-A-Mole

Symptom Whack-A-Mole

Symptom whack-a-mole is so 2005. Some manifestations uncommonly recognized of as symptoms:AnxietyDepressionFatigueEczemaChronic infection Some things commonly overlooked as root causes:TraumaPoor sleep qualityStealth infections, including Lyme +...
Quieting Symptoms

Quieting Symptoms

When a symptom speaks and the first goal is to silence it, we create more issues. The cause of that symptom doesn’t go away. Only the messenger gets silenced. And only for a time. The cause persists and although the body is powerful at adapting, damage on some level...
A Mindful Response

A Mindful Response

Imagine if instead of First Responders, all that arrived in an emergency were “First Reactors.” Instead of a calm and calculated approach to the situation at hand, there would be more recording, screaming, panicking, running away, freezing in shock, … A mindful...
Beauty From Ashes

Beauty From Ashes

Beauty from ashes . . . While driving through some of the hills that were severely burned in the California fires last year, I was struck by tiny pops of green amid so much char, barrenness, soot, and desolation. Fires are destructive. They are wild. They do not...