Why Do We Keep Doing What We Know Is Bad for Us?
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Why do we keep doing things we know aren't good for us? The answer may have less to do with weakness and more to do with habit, emotional soothing, and conditioning. Understanding why the pattern began can help us forgive ourselves and finally choose differently.
What Children Must Learn About AI Before the World Teaches Them Wrong
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Most adults who use AI daily cannot accurately explain what it actually does. That is not a personal failure — it is a design outcome. But when that same confusion gets passed to children without correction, we are not raising the next generation of innovators. We are raising the next generation of marks.
Why Your Stress Changes With the Seasons and Five Ways to Cope
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You are not imagining it. There is something about the shift in seasons that makes everything feel heavier, sharper, or just different in ways you cannot quite name. If your stress seems to rise and fall with the calendar, science and centuries of human experience are both on your side.
Full Moon in Pisces Illuminates What We Have Been Refusing to See
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- Written by: Clara Corwin
On August 28 at 04:18 UTC -- August 27 in some time zones -- the Full Moon rises in Pisces and casts its silver light across everything we have been avoiding. The Sun in Virgo wants answers, methods, and measurable results, while the Moon in Pisces dissolves the very categories we use to feel safe. This is a moment that asks us not to choose between knowing and feeling, but to learn how to hold both at once.
InnerSelf Magazine - August 24, 2026
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This week we are sitting with a particular kind of tension — the gap between the scale of what is happening out there and the very human, very personal decisions happening inside. Something is moving beneath the surface of ordinary life right now — not just in the headlines, but in the quiet places where we make our daily choices.
Sun entered Virgo -- August 22, 2026
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- Written by: Clara Corwin, InnerSelf.com
The Sun moves from Leo into Virgo on August 22, 2026, and the quality of light in the world shifts. For the next month, solar energy will organize itself around detail, discernment, and the unglamorous work of making things functional. This is not the Leo Sun's expansive roar—it is the whisper of the editor, the gardener, the person who knows that excellence lives in small corrections. Mercury sits at 23° Leo, still in the sign it rules, giving your mind clarity even as the Sun's emphasis turns inward and practical. Meanwhile, the Moon at 19° Sagittarius in first quarter phase is asking you to move toward something you want, to test what matters, to take action on what you learned at the New Moon three weeks back.
Astrological Overview and Forecast: August 24 to 30, 2026
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The week of August 24 to 30, 2026 is dominated by a powerful deep partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, darkening 96% of the Moon's surface and visible to over a billion people across the globe. This "throw-back" eclipse revisits the Pisces-Virgo themes we've been navigating since September 2024 — inviting us to deepen compassion, release control, and build greater faith. With the Sun and Moon in a tight square to Uranus and closely aligned with the fixed star Fomalhaut, expect surprising revelations, heightened nervous energy, and the potential for profound spiritual insight. Astrologer Pam Younghans guides us through the celestial influences at play and what they mean for each day of the week ahead.
When Disasters Strike and Addiction Follows in Rural America
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Rural communities hit by floods, wildfires, and hurricanes don't just lose homes and crops — they lose the fragile scaffolding that keeps mental health and sobriety intact. The link between climate disasters and rising addiction rates in rural areas is not a coincidence; it is a predictable pattern that follows a clear and documented logic. Understanding that logic is the first step toward breaking it.
How Social Media Manipulates You and Five Ways to Fight Back
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You pick up your phone to check one quick notification, and forty minutes later you're rage-scrolling through political arguments, feeling vaguely terrible about your life, your body, and your choices. Sound familiar? Understanding exactly how social media platforms are designed to keep you hooked is the first step toward taking your attention back.
InnerSelf Horoscope August 23 - August 29, 2026
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- Written by: Clara Corwin, InnerSelf.com
The Sun slips from Leo into Virgo on August 24th, and with it comes a shift from performance to precision, from shine to scrutiny. This week holds a Full Moon in Aquarius on August 27th—a moment when Mercury crosses from Leo into Virgo as well, doubling down on the analytical turn. What began as summer's theatrical energy now becomes something more exacting: Mercury in Virgo wants to name things clearly, to separate signal from noise, to ask whether what we built actually works. The Full Moon opposite the Virgo Sun will illuminate what needs to be released, what was based on illusion or wishful thinking, what demands honest accounting.
How Declining Birth Rates Will Reshape the Economies of Nations
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
The most consequential economic force of the next fifty years is not artificial intelligence, climate change, or geopolitical rivalry. It is something far quieter and far more certain: fewer people being born. When a country stops replacing itself, every assumption its economy was built on begins to crack.
What Happens to Your Body and Mind When You Quit Alcohol
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You wake up one morning and decide that today is different. Maybe it was last night that finally did it, or maybe it was a slow, quiet knowing that has been building for months. Either way, quitting alcohol is one of the most courageous and complicated things you can do for yourself, and your body and mind are about to go through something profound.
The $4 Billion Secret the Treasury Just Accidentally Revealed About the National Debt
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
On August 19, the U.S. Treasury quietly announced it would at least double the size of certain debt buyback operations, and bond markets moved immediately. Most Americans scrolled past the headline. That was a shame, because hidden inside that dry announcement was a window into how federal money actually works — and why almost everything you have been told about the national debt is at best incomplete and at worst a political weapon aimed directly at you.
InnerSelf Magazine - August 17, 2026
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What is striking, looking across this week's pieces, is how much the personal and the planetary are asking the same question: can you tolerate uncertainty long enough to respond thoughtfully rather than react reflexively? Whether that uncertainty is showing up in your kitchen, your relationships, the air you breathe, or the economic headlines you scroll past before bed, the same muscle is being asked to flex — the one that chooses presence over panic, and honest action over comfortable denial.
Let It Go and Forget About It
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What if peace of mind depends not on remembering every hurt, but on keeping only the wisdom? Marie T. Russell explores selective memory, forgiveness, boundaries, and the surprising freedom that comes when we stop carrying old grievances into the present.
Climate Whiplash Is the Most Dangerous Economic Force You Have Never Heard Of
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Somewhere in California, a farmer is staring at cracked earth one season and a flooded field the next, and the bank is not particularly interested in hearing about either. Climate whiplash — the rapid swing between opposite weather extremes — is quietly dismantling the economic architecture that modern life depends on. This is not a future problem. It is already on the invoice.
Why Buying Local Food Is Actually Healthier Than You Think
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Here is an inconvenient fact that most grocery shoppers never consider: the tomato sitting in your supermarket cart may have traveled 1,500 miles before it reached you, spending days in refrigerated transit while its nutritional content quietly degraded. The distance your food travels is not just an environmental concern — it is a direct variable in how much nourishment you actually receive. Understanding why local food is healthier means understanding the mechanics of what happens to nutrients between harvest and plate.
How to Manage Your Time After the New Baby Comes
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You imagined the newborn haze would be hard, but you did not quite picture yourself standing in the kitchen at 2am, holding a cold cup of coffee you made three hours ago, genuinely unsure what day it is. Time after a new baby does not just feel different — it operates by entirely different rules. The good news is that you can learn those rules, and this article will help you do exactly that.
Life Is Not Fair and Why That Might Be the Best News You Ever Heard
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
There is a moment most of us remember — standing in front of someone we loved, arms crossed, heart tight, saying those three words: it's not fair. And if you were lucky, someone told you the truth back. Life is not fair. The question is what you do with that answer.
Gen Z and the Hippie Generation: Two Rebellions One Restless Human Impulse
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Every few decades, a generation of young people looks at the world their parents built and decides it needs a serious overhaul. The hippies did it with flowers and folk songs in the 1960s. Gen Z is doing it with smartphones and hashtags right now. The tools are different, the urgency is the same, and the establishment is just as uncomfortable about it.
How Wildfires Contaminate the Environment and Damage Your Health
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
The smoke clears, the news cycle moves on, and most people assume the danger is over. It is not. Wildfires leave behind a contamination footprint that persists in the air, water, and soil for months or years after the last ember dies, and the health consequences follow the same slow, invisible timeline.
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