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: Pierre Pradervand
There is such a need in the world today of the most tender and immense compassion and deeper, more unselfed caring and giving, and blessing is one simple and efficient way of doing it. It is also an amazing tool for learning instantaneous, unconditional forgiveness...
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- Written by: Allison Carmen
Being addicted to certainty creates fear and limits what is possible in our lives. If I didn't know what would happen next in my life, I projected things would be bad and not work out.
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- Written by: Allison Carmen
Being addicted to certainty creates fear and limits what is possible in our lives. If I didn't know what would happen next in my life, I projected things would be bad and not work out.
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- Written by: Amanda Hughes, Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology
There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life. At least for men, there is some evidence for this claim: several studies have linked higher testosterone to socioeconomic success. But a link is different to a
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
What really works is for me to accept my powerlessness, my helplessness, that I really have very little control in this situation. I pray for Spirit to guide me safely through...
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
What really works is for me to accept my powerlessness, my helplessness, that I really have very little control in this situation. I pray for Spirit to guide me safely through...
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- Written by: Matt Shipman-NC State
The disconnect between how old we feel and how old we want to be can offer insights into the relationship between our views on aging and our health, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Peter Ruppert
Courage is not about being fearless in the face of a scary situation. It is the willingness to move forward or take action— despite your fear.
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- Written by: Peter Ruppert
Courage is not about being fearless in the face of a scary situation. It is the willingness to move forward or take action— despite your fear.
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- Written by: Vincent Cole
As you begin to seek inner faith and come to trust yourself and your abilities, you must first cross the 'bridge of forgiveness'. You have come this far by making the intellectual decision to move forward, but now you must make the emotional decision. Now you must step upon this bridge of forgiveness so as not to carry the past into the future.
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- Written by: Barbara K. Hofer, Professor of Psychology Emerita
Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political leaders failed to support what scientists knew to be effective prevention measures. Over the course of the pandemic, people died from COVID-19 still believing it did not exist.
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- Written by: Stephen Reicher, Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience
During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, and they led to disastrous policies.
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- Written by: Jill Downs
How can perfectionism be a stumbling block on the path? Having the compulsive need to be perfect can be very hard on anyone. Being a perfectionist creates problems, not only for the individual who suffers from it, but for those around them.
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- Written by: Nanette & Dr. Jerome Marmorstein
This temporary anxiety and depression state results from becoming overburdened with too many work, household, volunteer, or social obligations, and subsides promptly after reducing the excessive responsibilities. It can best be likened to overloading an electrical outlet and blowing a fuse. This situation is becoming...
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- Written by: David Coghill, University of Melbourne
Around one in 30 Australians (or 3.4% of the population) have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Yet it remains a poorly understood and highly stigmatised disorder.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
The Three Ultimate Attitudes are bottom lines of how our minds work. There are three Destructive Ultimate Attitudes associated with sadness, anger, and fear. And there are three opposing Constructive Ultimate Attitudes
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
The Three Ultimate Attitudes are bottom lines of how our minds work. There are three Destructive Ultimate Attitudes associated with sadness, anger, and fear. And there are three opposing Constructive Ultimate Attitudes
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- Written by: Tamara Bhandari-Washington University
The biology of our brains may play a role in “doomscrolling,” according to new research. The term “doomscrolling” describes the act of endlessly scrolling through bad news on social media and reading every worrisome tidbit that pops up...
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- Written by: Michele Berger-Penn
In cultures that value men as breadwinners, their unemployment can affect the long-term success of a romantic relationship, research finds.
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- Written by: Eleftherios Soleas, Queen's University, Ontario
People tend to think having biases is a bad thing. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to education and the workplace, tackling and mitigating bias is very much a topic of conversation.
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- Written by: Tracy Tylka, Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University
Being able to socialize again may bring enthusiasm and a sense of normalcy – but it may also increase anxiety over how
