Why Blaming Parents for Children’s Choices Harms Everyone
Child behavior reflects complex systems, not parental failure. Replacing blame with accountability supports real learning and growth.
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Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours
One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And yet one of the great self-betrayals of our culture is the way it wears the lack of sleep as…
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Caregiver Burnout in the Age of Self-Help
Understand the complex issue of caregiver burnout and how to effectively address it.
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Maslow Saw Vibrant City Life as an Unrealized Goal
Urban planners worldwide are still attracted to Maslow’s work.
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Carl Jung on Creativity
The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps because the answer to it is so unbearably simple: everything. We bring everything we are and everything we have lived to every…
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Rewriting the Drinking Story: Four Pillars for Empowered Sobriety
“You really need to drink less.” That’s what people kept telling me toward the end of my drinking career. The truth was I completely agreed but just didn’t know how. At age 26, I was diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder. Intuitively, I knew drinking was only the surface. The deeper questions—what’s underneath, and how do…
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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.” This essay originally appeared in The New York Times I once dreamed…
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Does the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Infringe on Religious Liberty?
In June 2015 the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the legality of same-sex marriage. Many states had already legalized it and most Americans thought it should be legal. As such, the ruling was consistent both with the constitution and with the democratic ideal of majority rule. There are, of course, those who…
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Why Anger and Recovery From Chronic Pain Are So Incompatible
Personal Perspective: Chronic physical pain is one of the greatest challenges a person can face. Here’s why anger can preclude relief and recovery.
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“Lower the Emotional Volume”: Chronic Pain
What is chronic pain? How might it affect people emotionally, mentally, relationally, and spiritually? Dr. Joel Jin offers helpful insights on the psychology of chronic pain.
