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Yogi Bhajan and the Kundalini Community: Premka's Own Your Self Journey

I used to hate men. And, all the while, as I attended a male-dominated college, and entered into a male-centric profession, I was diligently working to emulate what I perceived to be characteristic...

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A Celebration of Love

Videography: Ana Paula Alvarez
Music: Mardeleva

In November of 2019, I married the man who catalyzed my spiritual awakening and activated the creative life force that has brought my offerings to...

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Epigenetic Considerations Around Antidepressant Exposure

In psychiatrists’ offices, all around the world, women are being presented with something of a Sophie’s Choice – let your mental illness go untreated, or play with the risks...

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(Not a) Surprise: Glyphosate-Based Herbicides are Bad for Your Mental Health

Eat your veggies is no longer synonymous with health thanks to the increasingly documented deleterious health effects of chemical pesticides and herbicides.

In the approximately 80 years of human...

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Depression Caused by Genetics? Most Likely Not

Since the discovery of DNA, the central dogma of genetic translation has lured us in with a simple path from genes to illness.

With the completion of the Human Genome Project, however, we were...

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When It's Time to Wo/Man Up

This blog post contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.

Do you have Victim Stories being told in your life right now? Ways that things consistently suck,...

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Falling Up

This blog post contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.

Have you ever been in a life free fall?

Complete with the sense that you’re heading...

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Rock Bottom: The One Big Lie Your Mind Will Tell You When You're In Your Darkest Moment

This blog post contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self.

“How much longer?” I pleaded in the direction of the long space-time tunnel that separated me from my midwife. My mind...

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Rock Bottom: The One Big Lie Your Mind Will Tell You When You're In Your Darkest Moment

This blog post contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.

“How much longer?” I pleaded in the direction of the long space-time tunnel that...

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Mystical Experience to Cure Childhood OCD

This story and related topics are explored in my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.

Last year, I had the intense pleasure and deep privilege of sitting with like-minded...

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Why To Stop Complaining

This blog posts contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.

What happens when you get the thing you wanted?

We all know the answer…your attention...

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Are We Being Censored?

Many of you who have supported and followed my work for the past 6 years know that I’ve shared it with a fire in my belly and tears in my eyes. For so many years, I encountered moments where...

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