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🧶 Crochet is becoming my favorite nervous system anchor. Portable. Convenient. A steady friend. The repetitive motion activates the parasympathetic nervous system — lowering cortisol, slowing the heart rate, and easing the mind into a natural flow state. 🧶 Stitch by stitch, it's GOOD medicine. #CrochetTherapy #MindfulCrochet #YarnTherapy #ParasympatheticNervousSystem #NervousSystemRegulation…

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🧶 There's a particular kind of medicine that happens when women gather with their hands busy and their guards down. Yesterday I sat in a circle of women learning to crochet — needles clicking, yarn tangling, laughter filling in the gaps between stitches. None of us claim to be experts.…

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Travel as Medicine for Mind, Body & Spirit In this episode of Seva: Science + Soul, Angel V. Shannon sits down with Janna Zinzi, founder of Wander Womxn Travels, to explore travel as more than leisure — as a legitimate practice for nervous system…

Welcome to Seva: Science + Soul. I am Angel Shannon — Board Certified Nurse Practitioner, lifestyle medicine clinician, speaker, author, and Blue Zone retreat host with over thirty years of clinical experience including Johns Hopkins Hospital and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. This is the podcast…

Stress Management Is the Wrong Goal — Here's What I Tell My Patients Instead I've stopped using the term "stress management" with my patients. Here's why: in today's world, there's no realistic way to control or predict the volume of stress coming at you. What we can change is the…

Bell peppers are one of the richest food sources of vitamin C — which your brain needs to make dopamine and norepinephrine, the neurotransmitters behind focus and motivation. Pair them with onions (rich in brain-protective quercetin) and clean protein, and a 20-minute skillet dinner becomes real brain nutrition. Build a…

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Meet bok choy, the quiet overachiever of the produce aisle. 🥬 One cup carries a full day of vitamin K, more vitamin C than an orange, and the same brain-protective compounds found in broccoli, all for about 10 calories. Crisp stalks for the stir-fry. Tender leaves for the soup. Your…

What does it mean to live well — not just longer, but more fully, more consciously, more alive? Welcome to Seva: Science + Soul — the podcast where brain health, longevity, and lifestyle medicine meet the inner life. I'm Angel Shannon — Board Certified Nurse Practitioner, lifestyle medicine clinician, speaker,…

Meet Lily Walter — she's 105 years old and just renewed her library card. She's had one since she was four. Science says this is no coincidence. Reading regularly strengthens memory, reduces stress, delays dementia, and builds the kind of brain that doesn't quit. Your brain is not declining on…

Feeling overwhelmed this winter? ❄️ Learn how to find your 'One Thing' using Gary Keller’s lead domino effect to clear mental clutter and get focused. TAKEAWAYS: Success is a short sprint fueled by discipline. High achievement comes from doing less of what doesn't matter. If everything is important, nothing is…