Depression, considered a mental disorder by many, is in some ways a natural human condition. It is a profound and complex sadness that has the tendency to slow individuals down and wonder at the world around them.  Each person experiences depression differently but when treatment is sought it is often the same; anti-depressants.  Partly this is because we have one label, depression, w...

"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged."
Lawrence Durrell from Justine

It gets shattered in love, races from fear, and bursts with joy. Anyone who has experienced a broken heart knows that what we call the heart is more than the physical organ in the chest, responsibly beating away.  In Eastern Medicine the Heart is known as the...