Insights on Homeopathy & Vitality

Reflections and reports from science, health, and the arts.

Zen Is Not Shampoo

A week of sesshin, knee pain and mosquito bites, and why meditation and homeopathy both begin from similar suffering. Also: retiring the word woo.

Same chapter in a new book

Why contemplative care and homeopathy are the same work in different rooms, and what a new role there means for this practice.

This one isn't about me

If gushing appreciation for your partner isn't your thing, you might want to skip this one.

Creative People Embrace Complexity

Whether in the boardroom or the studio, people who build from imagination see the big picture. Our healthcare system doesn't.

How Do You Trust a Mystery?

A homeopath’s revelations on healing, career paths, and all the ways we can build knowledge.

On The Recovery Room

I talk with board-certified homeopath Roddy Schrock about what homeopathy is and why it can appeal to people recovery from Long Covid.

The Message Inside the Symptom (A Client Story)

Why silencing a physical symptom might mean missing the deeper message the body is trying to send. A client story.

What is Susceptibility?

What a horrifying case of athlete's foot taught me about treating the body like an enemy.

At Work in the Ruins

A midwinter note: unseen roots are planning what to do after the snow melts.

Case Study: Creative Injury

A baseball player sprains an ankle from practicing too hard. What happens to a creative entrepreneur when she hits a tough patch?

A 2026 Invocation

As I grapple with the tension of working online, I return to a kind of invocation for the year ahead.

Remembering Issan Dorsey

How Issan Dorsey built a place of peaceful transition for his San Francisco Buddhist community at the height of the AIDS crisis, and why it matters now.

Tangling with the Place I Come From

A big part of my healing journey has been re-engaging with the complex place I grew up.

Colin Self on Building Worlds, Slaying Doom, and the Health of Creative Practice

A wide-ranging conversation with composer and performer Colin Self about redefining health for creative people.

Joon Lee & Tracy Steepy on Creative Block, Healing, and the Body's Truth

A live conversation with writer Joon Oluchi Lee and jeweler Tracy Steepy about what health means when your body gets in the way of your creative work.

From Classroom to Clinic: Opening a Homeopathy Practice, with Kristina Jermain

Homeopath Kristina Jermain on launching a practice, the power of classical homeopathy, and care that aims to work itself out of a job.

Beyond New Age Fluff: The Real Story of Homeopathic Medicine

A homeopath's reflections on this mind-body medicine, its roots in early Western medical discovery, and why hundreds of millions trust it today.

The Body Remembers: Art and Trauma, with Shaun Leonardo

Artist and arts leader Shaun Leonardo on how creative practice reveals the body's intelligence and capacity for transformation.

How Do You Define Health

For creative people, health is not one thing. A short note on why one-size-fits-all care misses, and an invitation to define it for yourself.

Common Ground: Eyebeam

Eyebeam Executive Director Roddy Schrock joins Rail Editor-at-Large Dr. Charlotte Kent for a conversation.

Confessions of a Failed Artist

This essay is the second piece to be published as part of Conditions, a new series exploring how various forces affect our ability to live fulfilling lives

Building Blocks of Our Machine World

In a time of uncertainty, artists may offer insights and navigational aids for an emerging reality overwhelmingly dominated by technology and machines.