Tracking Ukrainians’ Mental Health Through 5 Years of War
About 70% of Ukrainians report mental health distress. A mental initiative is rolling out a national program to help track individuals’ progress in treatment.
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The Tall Poppy Problem: Why Excellence Often Faces Backlash
Why do we cut down the people who stand tallest? Envy, power, and the “tall poppy syndrome” reveal what happens when success threatens those around us.
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3 Grief Triggers That Can Catch You Off Guard
Grief triggers might be as numerous and individual as the person who inspired them. We can use these triggers to acknowledge loss and love, and to live again.
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Neurodiversity, Human Experience, and the Hiring Machine
Data-based practices are not the same as fair practices. Algorithmic selection will not fix bias in hiring; human fairness must come first.
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Do You Fawn?
If you are a trauma survivor and find yourself giving in to others’ desires, you may be a fawner. There are ways to honor our unique personalities and histories.
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Is delusion a modern institution?
My upcoming book is devoted to the theme that suffering doesn’t come primarily from bad external situations (like political ones), but from the interaction of those bad situations with our mental states of craving and resistance. One might ask: is it possible to split the difference? Could it be that our suffering comes from our…
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Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy
Once, at the gym with a physicist friend, I was struck by how no one else in the room had any idea that while she was sweating on the treadmill with a blank stare into space, she was doing advanced mathematics working out the logic of black holes. Another time, on the train with a…
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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old…
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How to Tackle a Nagging Task: Power Hour!
An earlier version of this article appeared February 21, 2014 What is Power Hour? “Power Hour” is a way to tackle the tasks that tend to sit at the bottom of your to-do list for months (or even years) because they don’t have a real deadline. Here’s how it works: Set aside one hour every…
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The “Baby Bag” Metaphor for Maternal Ambivalence
A candid conversation reveals how mothers carry love, anger, joy, and doubt—all at once.
