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Is your patriotism secure or superficial? As the U.S. turns 250, we break down the crucial difference between a healthy national identity and dangerous national narcissism.

“Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.” “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” the young Nietzsche wrote as he contemplated what it takes to…

Back in 2014 Kaci Hickox, a nurse from my home state of Maine, returned to the United States after serving as a health care worker in an Ebola outbreak. Rather than being greeted as a hero, she was confined to an unheated tent with a box for a toilet and no shower. She did not…

“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future,” Muriel Rukeyser wrote in one of the greatest books of all time. “Fearlessness is what love…

“The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.” “The state of enchantment is one of certainty,” W.H. Auden wrote in his commonplace book. “When enchanted, we neither believe nor doubt nor deny: we know, even if, as in…

I had a traumatic birth and postpartum anxiety. My husband withdrew and got quieter for months after. Only one of us got screened. Here’s what I’ve learned since.

Near-death experiences often show common features. However, according to a new theory, specific aspects of our life also shape the script.

You know the red flags, but do you know the green ones? Emotional availability is crucial when seeking a healthy and meaningful relationship. Here are five signs to look for.

My clients and I have benefited over the years from examining an issue in therapy by writing a poem about it.

Simpler travel all comes down to dialing down the stress of a trip. Start at the beginning by simplifying your packing. What you pack, and what you don’t pack for a trip can result in simpler travel…. The post 3 Things I Never Pack Anymore for Simpler Travel appeared first on Be More with Less.