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Treating yourself with care is critical when navigating the isolation of chronic illness.

Distance isn’t always a sign that something is wrong. For some people, creating distance is a way of managing intimacy, vulnerability, and emotions.

While the film “The Odyssey” attempts to capture the grand scale of Greek mythology, it significantly flattens the psychological depth of its female characters.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars. Just unclench the fist that has come to feel like home and let the story slip between your trembling fingers into the river of time, silver and indifferent. You may have to…

While we consider ourselves the dominant species, we face dangers from other species. While some are large animals such as lions, tigers and bears our greatest foes tend to be tiny. These include insects, bacteria and viruses. While we have struggled to eliminate threats new advances in technology and science have provided additional options. One…

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,’” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But despite all we know about the power of liminality and threshold states, we yearn for a firm foothold on one side of every blurry line and move through the fundamental…

Why does it take losing something to see it more clearly? One ancient Egyptian goddess got so tired of being overlooked that she left and took the rain with her.

Dr. Hansen discusses her research, which supports the notion that misophonia is a stand-alone disorder with a unique neural signature.

What happens when treating anxiety becomes more about quieting symptoms than understanding what is driving them?