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We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in why we do what we do, why we behave in the ways we behave. I think we all want to be happy and to live lives with meaning and fulfillment.

“Boys will be boys,” I say out loud as I sit with my girlfriends, enjoying a few cocktails on a Saturday night. Laughter is the main goal for these evenings. But often, we find ourselves dramatically ...

To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

Many years ago, I was in a group of women for relationships advice. One leader in the group said, “I hate desperate people.” She was sharing this thought regarding someone she had received a message ...

My heart sank into my stomach, painful and stabbing all the way down. My guts twisted so tightly that I couldn’t breathe. I watched my nine-year-old boy, despondent on the sofa, head hanging low with ...

There are so many things wrong with that declaration and question I shouted at my wife on several sober occasions before I relapsed and returned to active alcoholism. In my defense, my reaction wasn’t ...

What does it mean? Where do we get it wrong? And how do we practice it wholeheartedly? In our day-to-day lives, we have opportunity after opportunity to show up empathetically for the people around us ...

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, ...

Jim Carrey talks about his battle with depression. He explains just how tough suffering from depression can be, and how finding freedom from depression is tied to separating from the ego. When I think ...