The Frustration You Can’t Explain
If you’re frustrated with life, something specific is being blocked. There’s something you want that you’re not doing. Finding it means finding who you’ve been protecting.
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Reframing Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Clinical intervention stopped the crisis, and positive psychology interventions led to a full recovery—proof that healing the body isn’t complete without healing the mind.
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Ozempic, Anhedonia, and the Brain’s Reward System
Some people taking GLP-1 medications report feeling less pleasure or motivation, beyond simply losing interest in food.
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The Ethics of Cyberbeetles
In science fiction, a cyborg (“cybernetic organism”) is a combination of organic and technological components. Daleks, Cybermen, Terminators, the Bionic Man and the Borg are examples of fictional cyborgs. There are real-life human cyborgs, such as a person with a pacemaker. Cyborg insects are also real. Back in 2012 I wrote about the ethics of…
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What Emotional Safety in Therapy Feels Like
Emotional safety in therapy makes honest change possible. Learn what it feels like, why it matters, and how a therapist can help you build trust at pace.
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How open is your mind, really?
Right-thinking people like you and me (for neither of us believes we’re wrong-thinking) pride themselves on having open minds. Not for us the iron grip of ideology or slavish conformity to dogma. But how open are our minds, really? Aren’t there any number of things we wouldn’t even countenance being true? If you’re genuinely committed…
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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.” One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, however messy or painful our childhood may have been, and however complicated the adult relationship,…
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Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.” It starts with a tremble in the stomach, a palpitation in the chest. You may call it intuition, premonition, foreboding. You may press it down with the firm fist of…
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Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
“True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.” “One can’t write directly about the soul,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary. Few writers have come to write about it — and to it — more…
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Teaching Our Children How to Use AI Safely
Artificial intelligence can seem daunting. As parents, we need to help our children navigate this technology. Here are six family rules to help parents do just that.
