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: InnerSelf Staff
Donald Trump has just finished the last of his nine post-election “thank you tour” rallies. Why did he do them? And why is he planning further rallies after he becomes president?
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- Written by: don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
I have experienced a lot of life since I first started to apprentice in my family’s traditions. I have felt the ups and downs of life—from confrontations to harmony, from feeling anger and fear to happiness and love. I have learned that the key...
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- Written by: Miri Forbes, University of Minnesota; et. al
While aging is often associated with improvements in various life domains, the quality of sexual life typically declines. However, recent studies reveal that older adults prioritize the quality of sexual encounters over quantity, leading to a more satisfying sexual experience. This shift in perspective, along with life experience, can enhance sexual quality of life as individuals age.
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- Written by: Joseph Murphy
Exploring the psychological insights of Sigmund Freud, this article emphasizes the transformative power of love in human interactions. It presents practical pointers for fostering goodwill, understanding, and mutual respect, illustrating how positive thoughts can shape our experiences and relationships with others.
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- Written by: Sarah McLean
Struggling with feelings of unworthiness in relationships can lead to a cycle of co-dependence and emotional turmoil. This article explores the journey of discovering self-love, the impact of toxic beliefs, and the transformative power of treating oneself with the compassion and care that is often sought from others.
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- Written by: Georgina Cannon
This article is about the people you are supposed to like or love but can’t stand, such as extended family or friends of friends. Currently, most relationships are forged from the erroneous idea that we have to be the same to get along and that differences between us are to be avoided at all costs.
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- Written by: Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, PhD.
Empathy guides us in the accurate understanding of situations and relationships. When we live with empathy, we realize that it is a kind of virtual reality: we put ourselves in the other person’s shoes, absorbing her experience...
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- Written by: Joan Borysenko
The idealized self — the mask you put on for appearance’s sake — reaches the breaking point during burnout. All that work to maintain the facade, and it couldn’t even deliver the goods. You still don’t feel happy and fulfilled. As a result, the false self finally...
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
It may be possible to prevent babies from getting eczema—a costly, inflammatory skin disorder—just by applying something as inexpensive as petroleum jelly every day for the first six months of life.
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- Written by: Kevin Fryling, Indiana University
A baby’s most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, report researchers.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
Around this time of year, we all hear friends and acquaintances voicing dread about their upcoming family visits. From the sister-in-law who can't stop offering advice about how to raise your children to a father who has something negative to say about almost anything.
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- Written by: Dave Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Self-regulation skills help children manage their thoughts and feelings, control impulses, and solve problems.
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- Written by: Sally Caldwell
A Romantic Liar isn't the man who tells a little white lie now and then to keep your spirits up or fails to tell you the whole truth because he wants to spare your feelings. Some Romantic Liars specialize in concealing the fact that they're married, while others...
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- Written by: Holly Korschun, Emory University
New eye-tracking measures show that young children with autism do not avoid eye contact on purpose. Instead, they miss the significance of social information that is in others’ eyes.
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- Written by: Art Jahnke, Boston University
Many people involved in abusive partner relationships don’t think of the mistreatment as abuse, say researchers. Yet over the course of a lifetime, one-fourth to one-third of women in the United States will experience abuse from an intimate partner.
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- Written by: Starhawk
Put-downs are terms of disrespect, of ridicule and humiliation. I use the term shut-down for a form of communication that, instead of opening up a topic and encouraging debate and healthy conflict, shuts it off. Shut-downs may be overt but shut-downs can also be very subtle...
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- Written by: Nicolya Christi
As human beings, the greatest gift we have at our disposal can also be the greatest weapon—words. We can heal ourselves, others, and the world with words; yet they can also be used in a destructive manner. Most of us are unaware that the ways in which we relate are entirely distorted and unnatural.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that every soul has its own vibration...
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- Written by: Jerry Lynch
I love how Eastern thought and Native American tradition emphasize the essential goodness in all children. The Tao calls this essential goodness the way of the expansive spirit. Our work is to guide our kids to discover this goodness within themselves...
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
As they enter kindergarten, many children are still learning to control their behavior and may need educational support to develop that critical skill, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
If we are to love humanity as a whole, we must first love humanity in a unit of one -- our own self. I started looking at what loving someone really meant, and...
