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“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 ...

Let’s admit it: we’re all stressed. Confused and amazed, you might swiftly think to yourself, “No, I’m not!” You are. Trust me, darling, you are. As long as we’re working, finishing up tasks, tending ...

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 have all heard of the commonly discussed trauma responses fight or flight. Freeze is yet another reaction we experience when our brain tells us we are in danger. But fawn doesn’t get as much ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

I write about my human experience and specifically about life events that have brought me to the current path on which I tread. My new journey is deliberately designed to enable me to heal, reset, and ...

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 ...

Empaths are natural transmitters of energy. They have invisible antennae, and they are not only able to process and transform the emotions of those around them, but they can transmute energy from the ...

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The greatest realization I’ve had about death happened to me last year in India. During my Introduction to Buddhism course, we meditated on death. The teacher asked us to visualize the death of a ...