Resilience and Aging: A Reflection From the Camino
Personal Perspective: Lifespan psychology challenges the assumption that psychological well-being inevitably declines with age.
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When Social Media Becomes Another Weapon of Abuse
Leaving an abusive relationship doesn’t always end the abuse. Learn how to protect your privacy, set social media boundaries, and protect your peace when abuse moves online.
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When Your Mother’s Diagnosis Unlocks Your Own
Jordan Davis was a good student, articulate and high-achieving. She was also told that she was rude. A late autism diagnosis in her mother provided the key to understanding why.
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Meatless Monday, Revisited
Way back in July, 2012 the newsletter of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) supported Meatless Monday. This was based on health concerns about meat consumption, the environmental impact of meat production, and its inefficiency (for example, it takes 7 kilograms of grain to make 1 kilogram of beef). The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) took issue with…
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How Therapy Helps Shame Feel Less Powerful
Learn how therapy helps shame loosen its grip, with gentle, confidential support to understand self-criticism, trauma and the path towards self-worth.
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How Love Comes to You
We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination is always greater than that of the living — life keeps surprising us, keeps reminding us that all too often the wildest bet is the winning bet. And all the…
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Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college. On October 23, 2006, I began sharing my discoveries — passages from books, links…
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Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance… To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.” Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the…
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Are You Launching a College Freshman?
Ideas for embracing the milestone transition between high school and college.
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Can GLP-1s Cure Addiction?
Several addiction scientists have suggested GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could cure addiction. We’ve heard similar claims before, only to be disappointed. Here’s why history matters.
