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: Dr. Michael J. Russ
The image you hold of yourself determines your success or failure in everything. Ponder it for a moment. What do you really think about yourself? Do you like you? If you have accepted an idea of inferiority, then you better stop and rethink your position.
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- Written by: Lisa Huisman Koops
Parenting musically is the way I describe what happens when moms and dads use music for many nonmusical tasks and goals.
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- Written by: Jana Mohr Lone
When children raise uncomfortable questions or questions that seem to have no answers, adults tend to respond with explanations that try to resolve the issue, at least temporarily.
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- Written by: Barbara J. Semple
My thoughts and feelings have a lot to do with how I do or don't love myself. Imagine learning to love every part of your Self, the good stuff and the 'bad.' It has been a big project for me. Some years ago, a wise teacher told me emotional balance was key to knowing the higher levels of my Self...
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- Written by: Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett and Steven Howard
With governments around the world asking their citizens to avoid places, activities and gatherings to save lives, this just might be the largest ever international effort to self-regulate our actions against competing desires and impulses.
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- Written by: Lana Allen
The ancient Greeks knew the unexamined life was not worth living. They knew that the knowledge of self was the key to all other knowledge. This is very profound for each of us today.
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- Written by: Matthew J. Mayhew
With many college students forced to return home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tensions and arguments are bound to flare up.
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- Written by: Annmarie Caño
COVID-19 has revealed a great many things about our world, including the vulnerabilities inherent in our economic, health care and educational institutions.
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- Written by: Erika Bocknek
About 55 million U.S. schoolchildren attend schools that have been closed or are being directly affected by the new coronavirus social distancing rules.
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- Written by: Nicholaos Jones
The genetics researchers Anne-Marie Laberge and Wylie Burke in 2009 reported the case of a healthy 31-year-old woman, an administrative assistant with three estranged sisters, and a mother who’d died of breast cancer in her 40s.
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- Written by: Beverly Hughley
Good girlfriends have the knack of rescuing us at the right time, preventing our missteps, and saving our hides. As a forty-plus woman who's been duly blessed with a supportive circle of girlfriends, I can personally verify the aforementioned statement. To have a good friend, you must first be one.
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- Written by: Sylvia Browne
You've been inundated with erroneous information. It becomes terribly hard to try to figure out what's right. You're inundated by all types of moralistic behavior, commandments, church rules, and law. Behavioral modification is probably the most simplistic.
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- Written by: Kourtney Whitehead
Identity defines how we view ourselves, who we think we are, and what we think we are capable of. Our deepest beliefs anchor our identity with either our human selves or our souls.
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- Written by: Anne Fishel
Across the country an unprecedented number of couples are suddenly spending every waking and sleeping hour of the day with one another.
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- Written by: Wendy Grolnick
Parents have always helped with homework and made sure their children fulfill responsibilities like chores, but the extended and often unstructured time families are spending together during the current crisis creates new challenges.
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- Written by: Conor Wynn
To some people, fighting in the aisles over toilet paper makes sense. Driven by the social proof of empty shelves and in fear of losing out, they fight.
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- Written by: Hannah L. Schacter
In the wake of COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders, young couples may find themselves spending more time with each other than ever before.
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- Written by: Paul Brenner, M.D., Ph.D. and Donna Martin, M.A.
Learn how to shift from blame and tension to joy and partnership by uncovering the hidden patterns that shape your most intimate relationships.
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- Written by: Shirley Knapp and Nanette McLane
Each of you have a masculine and feminine energy in your being, and both need to be activated and brought to an equal place. The feminine spirit must be reawakened for ultimate healing of the planet.
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- Written by: Ben Deery
Earlier that day her swimming and basketball lessons were cancelled, a birthday party postponed, and she had to race with me between several meetings before the university campus shut down. “Stupid coronavirus indeed!”
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- Written by: J.T. Garrett, Ed.D. and Michael Garrett, Ph.D.
The Harmony Ethic, rooted in Cherokee philosophy, emphasizes respect, kindness, and balance in both human relationships and the natural world. It teaches that every life has purpose and promotes wellness through cooperation and generosity. By embracing this ethic, individuals can foster harmony in their lives and communities.
