The Alexandria Papers Newsletter #74

Busy and overwhelmed? Try these tips on how to find more peace and calm in your daily life with a beginner’s guide to slow living.

If you’re experiencing grief, overwhelm, or stress, try this breathing meditation to help cope.

Inflammation and headaches – is there a connection between the two? Learn how to reduce inflammation to benefit migraine disease.

Learn more about the most common migraine triggers so you can prevent future migraine attacks and how to find your own personal migraine triggers.

By Erica Hornthal, LCPC, BC-DMT Resilience is often seen as the capability to ‘bounce back’ or overcome difficult circumstances -it is essentially elasticity of the mind. Beginning with the mind can be challenging for many, so taking a bottom-up approach using movement can make all the difference.

Do you need help dealing with sexual assault, rape, or incest? Call @RAINN ‘s Hotline 800.656.HOPE (4673) to talk to a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area. Don’t feel comfortable talking? Use chat/text instead.

Self-reflection is a vital part of the midlife journey.

Reading books benefits both your physical and mental health, and those benefits can last a lifetime. They begin in early childhood and continue through the senior years. Learn how reading books can change your brain, your body, and your mental health for the better.

Not every classic enjoyed raved reviews from the start. Here are 5 great books that critics hated and readers loved.

We celebrate the incredible audiobooks that have graced our ears this year with this selection of the best audiobooks of 2023 (so far).

In the novels of the 19th century, the United States comes alive with all its contradictions and complications. Nathan Wolff, a professor of English at Tufts and author of Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age, introduces us to his picks of the best 19th-century American…

The best of both worlds, chicken pot pie combines crispy pastry with rich chicken stew.

The crunchiest crust and doughy inside – this cranberry walnut bread is simply delicious and requires no kneading at all! Easy and so tasty.

They each consist of basically the same ingredients, so how do they come out tasting different with an almost opposite mouthfeel? We’ll break it down.

Each morning as we walk the farm’s perimeter,
we find victims of the butcher birds: grasshoppers,

beetles, lizards, frogs, snakes, mice, impaled on cactus
spines, thorns, or barbed wire. Sometimes we see one of the

birds itself, perched on a branch or fence-line, the black
mask around its eyes and hooked beak resembling the

masks of my childhood heroes. My daughter doesn’t
like the look of it, and she doesn’t want it to

shriek: she wants it to sing like other birds.

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