Surrendering Control When a Loved One’s Health Declines
When a loved one’s health is in serious decline, letting go of a desire for control can help you reclaim peace.
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3 Ways to Use AI to Improve Your Cognitive Flexibility and Sharpness
You don’t have to care about efficiency or productivity to value growth.
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The Trap of Measuring Your Success on External Achievements
Relying primarily on external evaluation can get you into trouble if you don’t have a comparable way to internally motivate, reinforce, and value yourself.
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Social Justice against postmodernism
Remember postmodernism? When I was a student in the 1990s and 2000s, the very French philosophies of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida were all the intellectual rage. Everything was about subverting established paradigms and ways of thinking, showing complexity in things that seemed to be simple. In the early years of Love of All Wisdom…
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Before Sex, There Is Sensuality
After kids, couples often struggle meeting in the erotic. Sensuality is the bridge back to lovers. Focusing on the senses equalizes the dynamic and widens the sexual.
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What Havana Syndrome May Reveal About the Brain
Wireless safety standards might have to be revised downwards.
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Quiz: Mental Illness: 20 Eye-Opening Questions
How Much Do You Actually Know ? You probably know more about mental illness than people did a generation ago. Terms like anxiety, trauma, ADHD, boundaries, narcissism, and self-care have become part of everyday conversation. But with more awareness has come a lot more misinformation. Social media has blurred the line between clinical terms and…
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The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and self-help — life stares mutely back at us, immense…
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Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance,…
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Counselling or Psychotherapy for Adults?
Considering counselling or psychotherapy for adults? Learn how gentle, collaborative support can help you make sense of what feels difficult in private.
