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: Michelle Madrid
We’re not here, as adoptees, to live someone else’s life. My desire to get to the truth of me and to reignite the light within me has taken me on a transformational journey...
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- Written by: Niranjana Rajalakshmi-U. Arizona
Researchers have analyzed the relationship between loneliness and aloneness—and found that they are two different things that aren’t closely correlated.
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- Written by: John Campbell
When I was studying for a certificate in counselling, we had to create a ‘genogram.’ This is similar to a family tree, but in addition to recording the names and dates of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of each family member, we were also required to do little biographies on each person.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
There are two major factors which, combined, make present day living extremely challenging for anyone who attempts to stay informed on major issues of our times.
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- Written by: Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky
States sue Meta for knowingly hurting teens with Facebook and Instagram ? here are the harms researchers have documented
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- Written by: Jacqueline Heller, MD
Without regular face-to-face connection, empathy and compassion can diminish or disappear.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Articulation is more than just an assembly of words; it manifests thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
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- Written by: Vasavi Kumar
When you practice rigorous honesty with yourself and get comfortable saying your thoughts out loud, you will no longer hold back on authentically communicating with everyone in your life.
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- Written by: Stephen Rowley, PhD
Adoptees are a diverse, yet invisible community. We live in plain sight, but our adopted status is usually unseen by others.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
While the women's movement of the sixties has done much to liberate women in their careers, many women are still settling for less than they deserve in their relationships.
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- Written by: John Campbell
The quest for true love often seems to lead to multiple choices and repeated experiences. This behavioural pattern is common at every level of our societies
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
There is an indicator of a deep and true love, no matter how old you are. It is imagining growing old with the one you love.
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- Written by: Duke University
New research identifies a specific personality type that is more likely to share misinformation and undeterred from sharing it even after being warned it might be false.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Everyone wishes they had a superpower. Well, you’ve had a secret power since childhood; you just don’t know how to use it yet. That’s the power of language.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Cripps
I’ve decided to write a letter to my daughters in 2050. But when I pick up my pen, I can’t do it. My brain is too crowded with images of a mid-century that I may not live to see.
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- Written by: Michael J. Shea, Ph.D
The origins of obesity are deep and wide, beginning at conception and even earlier. To consider an individual with obesity, we need to view that person as a biological, emotional, and spiritual being in a historical and social context.
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- Written by: Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
Through repetitive patterns, you experience emotions that your ancestors might have experienced. Emotions are the connecting element between two worlds...
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- Written by: Hugh and Gayle Prather
I’m beginning to notice a few unexpected benefits from looking my age.
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- Written by: Divna Haslam et al
A key finding of our Australian Child Maltreatment Study, published in early 2023, is that emotional abuse is widespread and associated with similar harms as sexual abuse.
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- Written by: Craig Stanbury
In her book, Parenting on Earth, philosopher and mother Elizabeth Cripps argues that to do right by their kids, parents must also attempt to do something about the problems caused by climate change.
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- Written by: Rebecca Wildbear
In the eyes of the dominant culture, women, like nature, are deemed substandard. The feminine aspects of the world and in ourselves have been suppressed.
