“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.” “Fearlessness is what love seeks,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her magnificent early work on love and how to live with fear. “Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the…
Great work is never a solo act. Take time to think about the unseen hands behind our best work, and consider whose work your hands should be on.
As summer college tour season heats up, find out how parents can support their kids’ decision-making while letting them take the lead.
If body shame has been stealing your peace, learn practical ways to quiet your body bully, embrace body neutrality, and reconnect with your values and inherent worth.
What happens when every test is normal, but the question that matters most remains unanswered?
The child who never needed saving may be paying the price for the one who did.
Social media can pull us into automatic scrolling loops built on novelty, reward, and instant stimulation. Learn how to interrupt the habit and use social media more consciously. Social media can produce a trance-like state where we are no longer fully aware of what we’re doing. We’re just mindlessly scrolling, liking, and sharing. Many social…
Like many Americans my age, I was cajoled by my parents to finish all the food on my plate because people were starving somewhere. When I got a bit older and thought about it, I realized that eating (or not eating) the food on my plate would have no effect on people starving in a…
After a failed relationship, it is common to get into a negative headspace. You question all the things about your relationship to try to figure out what went wrong and why. In fact, you even question yourself, wondering if you did everything you could to make the relationship successful. The truth is, not all relationships…
