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: Gery Karantzas
Research into relationships can help us understand why some people desire the approval of a parent who is abusive, insensitive or inconsistent in their love – or who rate high on what’s known as “dark trait” tendencies (narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism).
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- Written by: Brian Smith
Often, people don’t even notice that they’re talkers. It’s important, therefore, to observe your own behavior and read the body language of others to learn if you’re a talker.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
The greatest ailment in our modern world is separation. We have become disconnected from ourselves, from others, and from the world around us.
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- Written by: Sarah Leupen
Everyone has one, but you might not know much about it. Biologist Sarah Leupen explains the ins and outs of belly buttons.
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- Written by: Georgia Middleton, et al
Eating together regularly as a family has long been promoted as a simple solution for improving health and wellbeing.
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- Written by: Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
Do you feel that you are living your life in full bloom? Do you too feel as if there’s a ceiling on life that shows up in different ways?
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- Written by: Jane Greer PhD
A useful skill for finally letting in the voice of reason is to “do the emotional math.” This skill enables us to know the truth...
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
The demise of marriages and relationships in general, is not over money, children, or health but crummy communication styles.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Englander, and Meghan K. McCoy
It’s a well-established fact that children’s and teens’ mental health took a hit during the pandemic. But new research suggests that teen girls in particular are suffering in unprecedented ways.
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- Written by: Matthew Dicks
Email is often a means of informal communication. As such, you can dramatically decrease the amount of time spent on email with short, efficient replies. Dispense with formalities whenever possible and increase efficiency.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue
Smooches and snuggles may make us feel warm and fuzzy, but they can also be good medicine, says Kory Floyd.
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- Written by: Michael Glauser
Civility cannot be legislated, mandated, or enforced by governments—it comes from internalizing civil values in our lives. In other words, as we become happier, we also become more civil, and becoming more civil reinforces our happiness.
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- Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick
We are the ones who make the choices and convey the lessons—by word and deed, wittingly and unwittingly—that shape a young person’s ethics and values, point of view, and priorities.
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- Written by: Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver
All sibling relationships have their ups and downs, good times and bad. But in a family with abuse, addiction, and mental illness, the relationships are warped by a range of dysfunctional dynamics.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Having a true friend (or several) in your life is a true gift. Having someone who you can call and say, "I am not doing well. I need your love," is a huge blessing
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- Written by: Nanci A. Smith, Esq.
Your psycho-spiritual-emotional health is the key to a successful legal divorce. Collaborative divorce is a divorce process that is fully legal and downright practical. It is practiced in every state in the United States and throughout the world.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
I heard an interesting theory about egoism a while back... "Egoism is the root of all conflict in the world." Intuitively that makes perfect sense.
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- Written by: Eileen Day McKusick
"Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good. "
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- Written by: Catherine Shainberg
We live in relationship. Even if we’re hermits on the top of a mountain we cannot help but relate to the blade of grass, the brook, the sun, and the stars.
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- Written by: Sarah Love McCoy
Truth be told, the path of Self Love is not for the faint of heart. There's no destination or end to it.
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- Written by: Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver
Children raised in homes with abuse, addiction, mental illness, and other traumas typically live in a state of denial. They must continually tell themselves that the terrible things they’re seeing, hearing, and feeling aren’t really happening.
