Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Noelle Sterne, Ph.D.
Like strangers, and every person in our path, we encounter acquaintances and friends for a reason. More accurately, we attract them. Sometimes the reasons appear obvious, and at other times the reasons are not obvious at all and may take months or years to dawn.
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- Written by: Kira M. Newman, Greater Good
Learning healthy ways—a collection of skills that researchers call resilience—to move through adversity can help us cope better and recover more quickly, or at least start heading in that direction.
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- Written by: Joyce & Barry Vissell
We want to wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving. This year, with all that is happening in our country, it seems more important than ever to take a break from the news and focus on gratitude and loving.
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- Written by: Sister Simone Campbell, BillMoyers.com
My heart aches for the division and anguish revealed in our November election. The fabric of our society is indeed torn and I wonder, can we find a way back together?
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- Written by: HeatherAsh Amara
For years I understood the concepts of loving more and unconditional acceptance. I knew the woman I wanted to be: more loving, more accepting, more compassionate. But in day-to-day living I struggled with keeping my heart open, especially when I felt afraid...
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- Written by: Nora Caron
Throughout primary school, I became accustomed to being in the crossfire of two opposing camps. When a French friend would insult my English friend, I would raise my hand, step forward, and launch into my own variation of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech...
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- Written by: Nicolya Christi
The thoughts that have accompanied me throughout these recent weeks regarding the US presidential elections are both ‘God Bless America’, in the literal sense, and “God Help America” (and the World). Viewing events consciously through half closed eyes...
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- Written by: Rebecca Valli, Cornell University
Would you be more grateful for a trendy new sofa or for a relaxing family vacation?
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- Written by: Zen Cryar DeBrücke
Mahatma Gandhi once instructed his devotees to “be the change you wish to see in the world.” His point was: don’t identify the problems of the world and kvetch over the shortcomings of humanity. He advocated instead actively embodying the higher qualities of being...
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- Written by: Shavasti
What we’re being called to do as a species before we either destroy ourselves or most of life on our planet is to meet ourselves fully. We must have the courage to meet our own prejudices and encounter every single place within us that would rather resort to blame than to face the collective human pain body.
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- Written by: Catherine R. Bell
The desire to create a more humane business often coincides with the desire to be a force for good in the world. This reflects the higher purpose we feel emerging inside us as a result of greater self-awareness. Such increased self-awareness eventually expands to include the surrounding community and the world as a whole...
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- Written by: Mark Epstein, M.D.
There is a story that has kept popping up in my work over the years. It is one of the tales of Nasruddin, a Sufi amalgam of wise man and fool. He has the peculiar gift of both acting out our basic confusion and at the same time opening us up to our deeper wisdom.
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- Written by: Barbara Berger
No matter what challenges or difficulties you are facing, it can be a big help to remember that if you can only do one minute at a time, there's nothing to worry about. One minute at a time. That’s all you have to do.
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- Written by: Alex Shashkevich, Stanford University
A research team of psychologists has found that teaching Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli teenagers that groups are generally capable of change—without ever mentioning a specific adversary—can significantly improve their ability to cooperate.
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- Written by: Howard Hewitt, Purdue University
Halloween is a chance to seek out the spooky, as well as the gross and horrifying. We enjoy the emotional rush—free of any actual danger—from both, says Daniel Kelly.
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- Written by: Amy McCaig,Rice University
A new study shows low socioeconomic status and fear of abandonment early in life can lead to poor health in adulthood—regardless of adult socioeconomic status.
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- Written by: Betsy Chasse
How often in your life have you avoided doing something because of the terrifying story you concocted in your head? Maybe you avoid ?ying or swimming in the ocean (amazing how the ?lm Jaws forced many of us back on to the beach). We’ve learned to tell ourselves the story of fear so well...
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- Written by: Sarah Love McCoy
I've been holding back. I've been biting my tongue until I can process the current events and search inside myself for my personal truth before I add to the noise. I've been wanting to transform this whole thing into something positive and I wasn't having much luck...
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- Written by: Tara-jenelle Walsch
The best way to move into authenticity with ease is to roll up your sleeves and get comfortable in your own skin. No one even has to be around for this to start, it’s just about you being comfortable with yourself.
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- Written by: Jared Piazza, Lancaster University
A few years ago, I discovered that a friend was cheating on their partner. This immediately blackened my perception of my friend. Then I remembered that I had done something quite similar some years earlier.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
Anger can lead to destructive behavior, but it can also be harnessed for positive change. By recognizing and expressing anger constructively, individuals can move beyond negative reactions and embrace acceptance. This article offers practical steps to channel anger healthily and create a plan for resolution, ultimately fostering kindness and love in relationships.
