A Private Online Therapy Guide for Starting Gently
This private online therapy guide explains what to expect, how privacy works, and how to choose calm, compassionate support at your own pace, with care.
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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty
There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, we are asked to swim in the rivers of lava that will make the new. “Almost it would appear that it is useless in such confusion to ask,” wrote Virginia…
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Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age
Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each followed by a full stop to demarcate the terminus of life. It hovers there, so sure of itself, this punctuational emblem of an irrevocable end. And yet…
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Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living
“If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” A century before an encyclopedia titled Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know fell into Alan Turing’s child-hands and seeded the ideas that bloomed into the computing revolution,…
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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of childhood, the brash insecurity of youth, the turmoil of middle age, in…
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Want to Be a Happier Parent? My “Four Tendencies” Personality Framework May Help.
An earlier version of this article appeared April 13, 2020 According to my Four Tendencies framework, every person falls into one of four categories — Upholder, Obliger, Questioner, or Rebel — based on how they respond to expectations. This sounds like a fairly dry, boring fact about someone — but it turns out to be…
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When ‘I Appreciate You’ Feels Hollow
Personal Perspective: Some expressions of appreciation can leave us feeling unsettled.
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Why Every Patient Needs an AI Zebra Scan
AI is built to converge on the likely answer. But medicine needs to know what got crowded out along the way.
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Why Do I Hate Pictures of Myself?
Why do so many of us hate pictures of ourselves? The answer often has less to do with the camera than the lens through which we’ve learned to see ourselves.
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Guaranteed Ways to Make Yourself Anxious
Do you ask yourself if you are accidentally doing things that keep you stuck in your anxiety? People sabotage their quest to overcome anxiety in many ways.
