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One of my friends is unhoused at the moment. She is sleeping in her car, parked on public land, which sounds to many people like "the worst circumstance possible," but she told me the other day that she saw a married couple pulled over on the side of the road, arguing and yelling at each other, cussing, screaming, and throwing punches, and she thought to herself, "At least I don't have THAT headache!" So, if gratitude is difficult for you because you don't have everything you

If you’re healing from divorce, separation, or the collapse of a relationship that left you anxious, confused, or starving for reciprocity, this may be the most important psychological shift you ever make. The problem was never that you were “too loving,” “too loyal,” or “too emotional.” The problem is that you were trained—usually in childhood—to chase connection, to earn affection, and to confuse instability with passion. This article explains why desire becomes a trap, why

When we go through divorce or the end of a powerful relationship, we often think we’re mourning the loss of love—but more often, we’re mourning the loss of a wound we kept trying to heal through another person. The partners we’ve been the most addicted to, the ones we couldn’t release even when they destroyed us, were rarely soulmates—they were mirrors reflecting the oldest pain inside us. If we don’t understand this, we repeat the same pattern in our next relationship, mista

I met Harvard professor Dr. Richard Alpert when I was 12 years old in the spring of 1966. He had come by to visit my mother, whom he had befriended two years earlier. At that first meeting we bonded over a common passion for a particular, very popular science fiction book, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Almost 60 years later I can condense what his spiritual teachings have finally instilled into me into three key principles:   Radical Acceptance :  Per his in

If you leave, think about who you will leave behind… Suicide.   That was never a word I was familiar with.  My good friend in high school lost her brother to suicide and that’s the closest I came to that word.   Until that fateful day in September.  September 16, 2022, at 5:03 pm.  It has been 3 years, 1 month, 29 days – making it a total of 1,155 days.   As Benjamin’s mom, in the beginning, I felt as if “I” was the only one going through this traumatic ordeal.  Now I realize

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I’m in my late fifties, and I went on a first date recently. During our conversation, the woman started telling me about her most recent failed relationship. It was clear things hadn’t been going well between them. Then she said — referring to what kept her in the relationship longer than she should have: “You know when you do that thing where you just think maybe they’ll change eventually, or it’ll get better?” I about spit my drink out and screeched: “No, NOOOOOO! At this p

Everything that you're worried about is going to be gone – just like that. The people that are criticizing you, they're going to be gone, you're going to be gone… All this hand-wringing, worry, and concern over, how are people viewing me, someone said something bad about me, and you get so upset about it, is wasted time and energy. Marcus Aurelius says your only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing. Focus on what you're doing, get better at what you're doi

“Confusion arises only when I think or insist that the road leads somewhere else—and that is the state most of us are in. Our opinions, our beliefs, our desires, our ambitions are so strong, we are so weighed down by them, that we are incapable of looking at the fact. ” —Jay K.Murti When applied to the end of an abusive or betrayal-based romantic relationship, the quote becomes almost painfully literal. In thes

You know, we've got ourselves into the most peculiar predicament. We walk around taking life so dreadfully seriously, as if the whole affair was some kind of final examination where one wrong answer could doom us to eternal failure. But what if I told you that this entire setup, this grand drama of existence, is nothing more than an elaborate game? And like any game, once you understand the rules, you can learn to play it with remarkable skill and, dare I say, with a sense of

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Dr. Keith Campbell Psychologist Dr. W. Keith Campbell, an acclaimed professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, is celebrated...