Blog

Intrusive sexual thoughts are often misunderstood as hidden desire, when they are more accurately a symptom of OCD and a cycle of anxiety-driven doubt. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more. Something happens when you are in a garden, when you garden — something beyond the tactile reminder that, in the history of life on Earth, without flowers, there would be no us. Kneeling between the scale of seeds and…

Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Grief in sport is real, yet rarely acknowledged. Providing connection and support to athletes is essential to healing. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

People often get stuck avoiding decisions because indecision can feel safe—and because brain circuits for weighing costs and rewards can freeze under stress or depression. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

When a divorcing spouse uses underhanded tactics, shock can morph into plotted revenge that ricochets back. Learn how to carefully create a healthy path out of a marital crisis. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

As long as we are caught in egotism, the opportunity for a healthy relationship vanishes. Only humility makes a relationship work. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

How much and how quickly can we change the brain late in life? AI offers novel, noninvasive ways to improve and change brain function across ages. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.” It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds. Eudora Welty called it “the continuous thread of revelation.” Walt Whitman saw it as something…

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” “Cut short of the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes,” Denise Shekerjian wrote in contemplating the capacity for “staying loose” that many MacArthur geniuses have in common. “Cheat on the chaotic stumbling-about, and you’ve…