A store that sells only tiny products?

There are surprisingly a lot of interesting items here – particularly for travelers. 

How to fall asleep

 My go-to when I am having trouble falling asleep is Nothing Much Happens, a podcast which you can find on all the platforms. . There’s a reason that parents all over the world read to their kids to help them fall asleep…it allows your brain to detach from thinking just enough to quiet down.

If that doesn’t work for you, this recent article in the NYTimes makes a good case for using a Kindle (instead of your phone) to read before bedtime.

The origin of EMDR

I came across this story in Annabel Abbs-Streets’ book about walking and I was intrigued. I suspect there is more to the story about how EMDR (which is an effective treatment for PTSD) was developed, but isn’t this wonderful?  

“In 1987, Dr. Francine Shapiro was walking in her local park when she noticed that the simple process of scanning the landscape made her feel calmer and less anxious. After years of research, she developed a therapy that mimicked this process but could be used indoors by therapists making a series of hand movements. The therapy—known as EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing—has been successfully used on thousands of people with PTSD and validated in over fifty studies. But its success is rooted in eye movement, something that happens involuntarily as we stroll.”