The Chess Game of Life: Why Every Move Matters
We often treat our daily choices as a mishmash of random events. But like a grandmaster, we need to realize that every move changes the board.
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Is It Better to Learn a Second Language as a Child or Adult?
From brain development to accents, aptitude, and motivation, the real science behind language learning challenges the idea that there’s only one “right” age to start.
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8 Simplicity Books to Help You Slow Down and Live with Less Clutter
Some of these simplicity books helped me to simplify my own life and others offer continued inspiration. If living more simply and peacefully is a lifestyle change for you, these simplicity books will support your tiny steps… The post 8 Simplicity Books to Help You Slow Down and Live with Less Clutter appeared first on…
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Attachment Anxiety and Sexual Health
Chances are, you have heard something about attachment style. Here’s how attachment anxiety is related to sex and sexual health based on studies on sexual minority men.
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Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity
“There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear… People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the difficult.” “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is…
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Mental Health in the Black Community: Addressing Barriers and Finding Culturally Competent Care
Black and African American individuals have experienced great progress when it comes to mental health support, but barriers to quality care still persist. These challenges exist all year round, but this February, you can honor Black History Month by exploring the importance of mental health in the Black community and taking actionable steps to remove…
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When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive
“Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what’s inside us from moment to moment.” “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself,” Kahlil Gibran wrote in his poignant verse on…
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Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation,” Rilke wrote to his young correspondent. The great difficulty of loving arises from the great difficulty of bridging the abyss between one consciousness and another in order to…
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Implications of Driverless Cars, Revisited
My friend Ron claims that I do not drive. This is not true. I drive. But I dive as little as possible. Part of it is me being frugal. I don’t want to spend more than I need on gas and maintenance. But most of it is that I hate to drive. Some of this…
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The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife
“Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and open ourselves to a greater wonder.” “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost,” Dante wrote in the Inferno. “The perilous time for…
