by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting
Water-only fasting is one of the oldest practices in human history — undertaken across every major civilization for spiritual, medicinal, and ritual purposes long before science had any framework for understanding what it was doing to the body. Today, that framework...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Rumination is a repetitive, passive process of overthinking, focusing on the causes and effects of distress, often without actively seeking solutions. It involves repeatedly dwelling on negative thoughts or events, which can worsen mood and increase stress. While...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 3, 2026 | Men, Sacred, Spirituality
Why no man is ever beyond hope. The Question Most Men Never Ask There are men suffering right now who do not know they are suffering. There are men who know they are suffering but believe it is simply the nature of things — that this is what life is, that this is what...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
The word mystic often conjures images of robed figures, monasteries, visions, or supernatural powers. In reality, mysticism is far less about spectacle and far more about direct experience. A mystic is someone who seeks — and sometimes attains — a direct, embodied...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Food addiction” and compulsive eating disorders (like binge-eating disorder) aren’t just issues of willpower. They’re patterns of behavior driven by brain-reward circuitry, stress biology, emotions, and an environment filled with highly palatable, ultra-processed...
