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: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
We've become so focused on how we'll maneuver to fit it all in that we no longer stop to smell the roses or breathe in the fresh air. Desperately we strive to gain control over the unknown. And we are hard on ourselves when we don't measure up to some internalized standard. Summed up, we're "stressed" out. Does this apply to you or someone you know?
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- Written by: Laurel Mellin
Americans have been barraged by a series of major news events – some of them unsettling. Many have been left unsettled OR anxious OR jittery about the future of the decades-old U.S. relations with Europe
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
I have been impressed by ordinary people who don't talk much about spiritual matters; they just live it. After hearing and talking about unconditional love for many years, I find it quite refreshing to see it in action with no hype or flourishes. These hidden gurus masquerade as hotel cleaning ladies, shoe shiners, or rental car shuttle bus drivers.
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- Written by: Olivier Clerc
Our habits of thinking and speaking are so deeply ingrained that often we are not truly aware of the words we use or of what they actually mean. You might begin by deleting from your conversation all the popular...
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- Written by: Michel Odoul
Difficult experiences cause us to reflect about what is happening and no doubt lead to us making the changes necessary to help us grow—provided we are ready to listen to the underlying message. Otherwise we keep repeating the same old patterns until we finally understand what our experiences are trying to tell us and change our behavior.
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- Written by: Tali Sharot
Some of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and anxious. From medical decisions to financial and professional ones, we are often required to weigh up information under stressful conditions.
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- Written by: Colin C. Tipping
When we do not allow ourselves to experience emotions and suppress them instead, our souls create situations in which we are forced to feel them. That being the case, simply allowing ourselves to have the feeling might allow the energy to move through us and the so-called problem to...
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- Written by: Katie Bohn
Starting your morning by focusing on the stress to come may harm your mindset throughout the day, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Martin Brofman
Okay. You’ve got some kind of symptom. Whether you consider it to be the result of an accident, some organism, or just bad luck, you’ve got something to deal with, something to understand, some action to take.
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- Written by: Bastiaan T Rutjens
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings.
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- Written by: Maresha Donna Ducharme
Trusting love is a radical severance from one’s preferences, addictions, and obsessions. It is a persevering willingness to enter and re-enter the unknown. It is a commitment to listening to the voice of one’s Soul anew each day.
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- Written by: Jade Sheen and Jane McGillivray
Oppositional defiant disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behaviour directed towards authority figures.
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- Written by: Jared Wadley
Children as young as 5 have a nuanced understanding of fairness, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Carol Ritberger, Ph.D.
Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, proposed that there were four distinct personality types. His theory was that a person's personality type determines their vulnerability to mental dysfunction and their susceptibility to illness.
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- Written by: Susan Kelley
Immediate rewards may boost motivation more than waiting to reward yourself until the end of a task, according to new
research.
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- Written by: Julia Cameron
If you'll pardon the levity, most of us are afraid of fear. We think it's a bad thing. Because so many of our experiences with fear have been negative, we fail to see fear as positive or useful. It is both. Let me repeat: Fear is positive and useful.
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- Written by: Heather Heying
There are many different ways in which the brain is rewired differently than the norm.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
As it happened, our current litter was born yesterday, Sunday, on the last day of our mentorship retreat! If I could have planned the worst possible time for our Gracie to give birth, it would have been that day! We were expecting her litter starting in the next few days.
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- Written by: Barbara Berger
Reflecting on life often reveals how worries and insecurities overshadow the richness of experiences. Embracing ten key principles can shift perspectives, emphasizing that true happiness stems from within, shaped by thoughts rather than external circumstances. By accepting reality and understanding the nature of thought, one can cultivate a fulfilling life.
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- Written by: Janet J. Boseovski, University of North Carolina
Young children exhibit a positivity bias, often viewing others through an overly optimistic lens. This tendency can lead to challenges in critical thinking and accepting constructive feedback. Understanding the mechanisms behind this bias can help caregivers guide children towards more balanced evaluations of themselves and others as they grow.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
Dr Vasant Lad defines depression as a popular diagnosis characterized by "a loss of pleasure and interest in life... accompanied by a sense of pressure, hollowness or emptiness, and low self-esteem." We all can feel down sometimes, but when it becomes our dominant attitude...
