I’m having an incredible second week of my second semester! My classes are really great as are all of my teachers and I’m super stoked. That said, the way I have all my classes stacked, and due to the fact that this semester’s course-load is a little heavier, I can tell I’m in for a challenge, a challenge I’m totally up for.

I’ll go more into detail about school soon. For now, I wanted to strongly recommend reading “The Americanization of Mental Illness” an article in the New York Times about how our cultural expectations affect the expression of disease and how globalization of ideas is affecting mental health world-wide. I’d love to hear comments anyone might have. Mental health is an interest of mine (as part of all health within a holistic model in which the mind and body exist on a continuum) and I plan to discuss Chinese Medicine and its capacity to benefit mental health here on this blog.

Now I have to make sure I’m getting enough sleep to absorb and retain all of the delicious information and experiences coming my way…