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If you are like me, you’ve probably experienced the casualties of conflict. You’ve probably experienced first-hand how pervasive and difficult conflict is, and wondered if there is a better way....

One of the key ways that crafting heals us is by interrupting the ruminations of the mind. Rumination is a common symptom of depression. Therefore, interrupting rumination can help with reducing...

I have been a silent witness to the #Me Too and #Time’s Up movements, watching women and men come forward with their stories with both admiration and sorrow. I admire...

Seemingly without reason or rhyme, when a famous man fails and dies, somehow our cultural grief shifts to wives and girlfriends who “couldn’t save them.”

“For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside, That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive, I wanna find one face that ain’t looking through...

Last week, I postulated that a woman’s relationship with her mother makes or breaks her ability to navigate female friendships successfully. This week we explore the potentially volatile topic: Should...

Something, isn’t it? That in times of crises, we see a side of others and maybe ourselves that lurks under the surface, waiting for just this moment to breathe. Sometimes...

Today I love refusing to be sick, even though I’m not really sick and am in reality just feeling beat up by the antibiotics, darn those demon things! I love...

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Do you feel that the pattern of relationships in your life is horribly consistent, as if it’s been scripted by the same people who wrote Groundhog Day, or perhaps Titanic?...

Rituals root us to ourselves, to others, to our world. As I wrote in this piece, rituals reconnect us “to our bodies, to our bones, to our breath.” They strengthen...

According to a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults, nearly one in five women has been a victim of rape or attempted rape and one in...

One of the most important things, if not the most important thing, in our social life is boundaries. In this article, we will briefly define boundaries, review the types of...

Spoiled! That’s the usual, flippant conclusion. Pissed off adult children of “wonderful” parents who tried their damnedest to be perfect parents are simply butt-hurt spoiled brats. Right? Wrong! Here is...

Having gone through the wringer of love and loss, let me tell you my story. Roscoe is my name and being a mutt is my trade. I was perfectly content...

Scientific research studies/experiments, especially social science studies such as psychological ones, are in crisis--many of them cannot be replicated.