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How to Hold What Harrows You
We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffering, and by what we make of our suffering, that our personhood ripens in us, that we come…
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.” “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his pioneering 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings — the first great gauntlet thrown at the Cartesian dualism of body versus mind. In the century and a half since,…
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How to Improve Your Well-Being by Agreeing to Disagree
Whether watching true crime or live trials, there is a lesson to be learned in how to agree to disagree.
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Choosing Who We Want to Be With One Another
Conflict often spurs us to react before our wiser self has a chance to respond. Four reflective questions can help us approach difficult conversations with greater awareness.
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Big Tech Believes in You
Personal Perspective: Meta’s new ad says it believes in people. So do the companies selling you the cure for the loneliness they created.
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Betting on the Future
The most powerful negotiation moves transform uncertainty into opportunity.
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Getting High Off Your Hobby
Personal Perspective: My college roommate was my best friend, and we were alike in many ways. But he became a serious weed aficionado, and I did not. Why?
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The Radical Buddhism Project
My friend and colleague James Shields has just started a new site called the Radical Buddhism Project, “an independent digital humanities archive and research portal dedicated to recovering, preserving, and contextualizing the historical intersections of Buddhist doctrine with radical left-wing socio-political thought.” It collects information on Buddhist radicals in countries across Asia. I’ve often been…
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AI Images & Theft
In my previous essay I looked at why I use AI generated images in my D&D products. As I noted, the essay offers an explanation rather than a justification for my using these images. As I admitted, I am wrong to use these images—but, as I also admitted, I do many bad things. So…
