Do you appreciate your troubles?

What does it mean to be an engaged citizen?

Can I experience something without thinking about its nature?

As a parent, often we feel that our job is to protect our children from pain and relieve their suffering, and I honestly struggle with...

Modern society teaches us that anything worthwhile doesn't come easily. We are always told that the good things in life take hard work....

It's easy to feel impatient, to fee like I am stagnant or moving backwards, when I recognize that the world doesn't change fast enough to...

Michael Meade writes in "Fate and Destiny" that we all experience pain, which emerges when our smaller, egoic selves obscure the greater...

From James Baldwin's collaborative book of essays with Richard Avedon's photography, "Nothing Personal," comes a timeless message that...

Transitions are hard, but here's a quote that has always given me comfort: "It will all turn out alright in the end. If it's not alright,...

Inspired by a quote from People I've Loved: "Some day we'll look back on this time & wonder how we got through it. I have no idea how...

Time doesn't heal all wounds, at least not on it own. Time can numb our pain by putting distance between us and our trauma. But, by...

Collaboration with Koret Munguldar, psychotherapist and meditation teacher. Here are her observations about resolving trauma in our...

To a certain extent, we are all products of our environment. When the world seems cold, we turn cold. When the world turns bright, we...

I'm taking part again in Dani DiPirro's 30-day gratitude challenge. Today's prompt is Change. Ever since reading this quote by Baal Tem...

It's useful to be able to tell the difference between when you're being brave and when you're being stupid. But it's OK if you don't...

Inspired by Miyamoto Musashi and JW von Goethe. What are you working on today?

What makes pain and trauma so difficult for us to let go of? "These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb." -...

Sometimes when the going gets tough, we become even tougher on ourselves. I can't count the number of times I've told myself to "shake it...

As many of you know, I've been working on developing story ideas for an Oxherd Boy picture book. One of my first ideas was one on self...

I did a little bit of Internet sleuthing about the history behind this quote, and it is most frequently attributed to Sufi philosophers....