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: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Loneliness, a universal human experience, often conjures images of an aching heart yearning for connection. However, recent insights suggest that our understanding of loneliness requires a more profound examination beyond the need to belong.
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- Written by: Christian Ilbury, The University of Edinburgh
They’re serving what?! How the c-word went from camp to internet mainstream
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
In Britain and the United States, we are used to “Father Christmas” and “Santa Claus” but other countries and cultures celebrate female gift bringers.
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- Written by: Mandy Doria, University of Colorado
For many who are suffering with prolonged grief, the holidays can be a time to reflect and find meaning in loss
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- Written by: Cheryl Pallant, PhD
Many of us tend to pursue areas of strengths and ignore areas of weakness. There’s good reason to use strengths. They reinforce competence. But there’s also good reason to explore and utilize weaknesses.
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- Written by: Tom Garner, Sheffield Hallam University
How Christmas music in adverts and shops harnesses nostalgia to encourage you to spend more
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- Written by: Coline Monsarrat
Let’s explore ways to train our brain so we can stride confidently into life’s grand meeting room, project our voice with conviction and aplomb, flipping the script on imposter syndrome.
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- Written by: Phill Webster
I’ve made mistakes. Many. I’ve done things I am not proud of. Repeatedly. We can’t correct the wrongs we’ve committed in our lives, but we can try not to repeat them.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
I write this as one who, many years ago, practiced journalism and created in French-speaking Africa a quarterly magazine that was lauded for its fundamentally positive approach to all issues, while at the same time remaining sharply realistic.
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- Written by: Sara Goldstein, University of Delaware
Why are bullies so mean? A youth psychology expert explains what’s behind their harmful behavior
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- Written by: Penelope Hasking, Curtin University and Stephen P. Lewis, University of Guelph
Someone has told you they’re self-harming. Now what?
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- Written by: Jacqueline Heller, MD
Trauma can be social, even global, as well as individual. Man-made social cataclysms and natural disasters influence the herd mentality.
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- Written by: Lawrence Doochin
Where compassion is, fear cannot be. Just as gratitude is the opposite of resentment, bitterness, and fear, compassion and judgment are also opposites. Compassion expands our energy, whereas judgment contracts it.
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- Written by: Steve Taylor
Our prehistoric ancestors lived in a state of connection, without a sense of separateness to their immediate environment or their community. However, at some point a “fall” into disconnection occurred.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We live in a world that urges us to pick a side and see things as good or bad, right or wrong.
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- Written by: Sue Frederick
Pretending to be perfect—all good, brilliant, enlightened—is an impossible dream here on planet Earth, for we are imperfect human beings. Yet how we waste time longing for it and seeking it in others
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- Written by: Boris Kester
It’s all a matter of perception. My motivation to travel is fired by an unbridled curiosity for unknown places, for people with very different lives and for cultures that are remote from mine.
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- Written by: Lisa Doggett, MD
Uncertainty is one of life's inevitabilities. And we all cope with it and accept it – more or less. But a chronic disease like MS can raise that level of uncertainty to a new level - to scary, unfamiliar territory.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
Desperately we strive to gain control over the unknown. And as a result, we call ourselves "stressed" out. Does this apply to you or someone you know?
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- Written by: Jaime A. Pineda, PhD
Most of us feel traumatized by what seems like an out-of-control life. But the good news is there is something we can do.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
Never in the history of humanity have we been exposed to such an infinite variety of opinions, beliefs, forms of behavior, customs and so on. Humanity has become a melting pot of world dimensions!
