Self

Picking a therapist: The right fit is critical so ask the right questions

From the American Psychological Association: “Being in therapy is great,” comedian Caroline Rhea once joked. “I spend an hour just talking about myself. It’s kind of like being the guy on a date.” It’s not a bad analogy — the dating one — when you’re setting out to find a therapist. You want someone with [...]

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The Painful Truth

We’ve all experienced some form of emotional pain in our lives at some stage or another, and as I was considering what to write about on this subject I came across this lovely quote. ‘Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for [...]

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What is my question?

by Adam J Pearson

I have often find myself asking other people’s questions. However, at one point it struck me that these were not my questions. And then, a new question arose: what is my question? What do I truly want to know and to answer? That is a powerful question. Image Credit: WingedWolf @ Flickr Please share [...]

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Bald is Beautiful

by Shoot 4 Change

A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were that day and I collected their stories too. Some of them have alopecia, some have been through chemotherapy, others [...]

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Manners and Relationships, Over the Centuries, Are Like a Horse and Carriage

by Rochelle Burns

I have always been fascinated by manners. Specifically, why have we used them over the centuries when dealing with others? Perhaps, bopping people over the head didn’t work as well as being pleasant. So, like the duo of a horse and carriage – you give, they feel good – manners took off. There are, of [...]

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Digital Afterlife

by Moments Count

From Robert A MacDonald for The Sun: Peggy was dying. She had battled cancer for years, but at the age of 45 she was losing her fight. A wife and stay-at-home mother of three children in Ventura, Peggy had caught the online bug and couldn’t stop writing about what was happening to her and the [...]

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What’s the square footage?

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

The age of the McMansion has become passé. The overblown contest of house size, “Who’s is bigger?”, has found it’s new location in the circular file of public consciousness. Perhaps the time therefore has come to keep in mind that the size of the house matters least. What makes a house a home is not [...]

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Connecting the Dots from Problem to Solution

by Adam J Pearson

Talking with my mother made us both realize something: often the solutions to our most pressing problems are already known to us. We have simply, until now, failed to connect the dots. Eventually, we may do so on our own, but often it helps to have a friend or a loved one to help us [...]

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Why I want to be Autumn De Wilde when I grow up

by Alexandra Wallace

For the majority of early childhood, I knew who I wanted to be when I grew up: Snow White, of course. I had planned my future of adulthood to take place in an idyllic cottage, spending my afternoons singing in the middle of a forest while little birds landed on my hand. Writing it out, [...]

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A Good Death and How to Achieve It

by Chris Palmer

Is it possible to create a good death? Or is someone simply lucky if he or she dies well? These are the fascinating questions Dr. Ira Byock, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, raises in his important 1997 book, Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. Both my parents have died (four [...]

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