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Ashleigh Freckleton didn’t know she was in a cult until it got dangerous. Now, she’s speaking out. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Why don’t some cultures feed visiting kids? Reciprocity, not rudeness, explains it, and the logic makes more sense once you see where it came from. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Weekend Wisdom: For a more leisurely week ahead, schedule an extra 10-15 minutes in between everything. What are you doing on next Thursday, April 23rd? Want to hang out? I’m hosting a live Declutter Hour to focus… The post taking love to the stars + best decluttering tips appeared first on Be More with Less….

Personal Perspective: AI is reshaping how we express emotion and seek support, offering comfort while risking authenticity. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Conflict is inevitable—but disconnection doesn’t have to be. This powerful piece reveals why relationships don’t fail from conflict, but from the absence of repair. With deep clinical insight, it shows how self-awareness, empathy, and intentional communication can transform tension into trust, intimacy, and lasting connection—guiding couples from rupture back to a relationship that feels like…

Gottman’s four communication patterns that predict divorce are now defining American politics and threatening democracy. Can this marriage be saved? Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

“The amazing, the unforgivable thing was that all his life he had watched the march of ruined men into the oblivion of poverty and disgrace—and blamed them.”   -The Weapon Shops of Isher, A.E. van Vogt   In the previous essay, I discussed the role of chance in artistic success. In Salganik’s discussion of his…

Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas are Earth’s most creative and most successful apex predator. Although they are known as killer whales, they are the largest member of the dolphin family. Older than great white sharks, they hunt everything from seals a tenth their size to moose…

“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.” Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing. And yet longing is also the most powerful creative force we know: Out of our longing for meaning…

A habit is a spell you cast upon yourself that only you can break. “We are spinning our own fates, good or evil,” William James wrote in his pioneering treatise on the psychology of habit. What we habitually let in — ideas into the mind, people into the heart — shape what we become. In…