What Your Therapist May Not Even Know About Therapy
Therapy isn’t just about what happened in the past. Sometimes the most powerful healing happens in the room, in the relationship between therapist and client.
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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life
“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.” We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what qualities of character and spirit we cultivate to come abloom, what follies we…
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Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are] simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time.” “‘Tis good — the looking back…
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AI Images and Job Displacement
In an earlier essay I explained why I use AI images in my D&D content. This was not offered as an excuse or justification as I agree it is morally wrong to use these images. In another essay I presented the argument that using AI generated images is wrong because AI companies engage in theft….
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Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” The third volume of Anaïs Nin’s diaries has been on heavy rotation in recent weeks, yielding Nin’s thoughtful and timeless meditations on life, mass movements, Paris vs. New York, what makes a…
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Naturebang
What if all the ideas and values surrounding our lives are like pieces of sediment in a river? Some never quite settle and get swept away, lost to the currents of time. But some take hold, solidify, become part of the cultural bedrock that underpin our lives. With the help of a geologist and a…
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CBT Versus Counselling: Which Feels Right?
CBT versus counselling can feel like a difficult choice. Learn how each approach works, what they can help with, and how to choose with care at your pace.
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How “Certainty” Undermines Intimacy and New Possibilities
Personal Perspective: Why tolerating ambiguity can deepen connection and hope.
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Can Happiness Be Bad for Your Health?
Good fortune should make us feel better. But for people with low self-esteem, positive life events can sometimes have a surprising psychological and physical cost.
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3 Pleasurable and Powerful Reasons to Send a Handwritten Note
Studies show handwriting helps us remember and learn better than typing, and a simple note may turn out to become a meaningful keepsake… for a week or two, or even generations.
