Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Attributes of Resilience Future Orientation
True grief never goes away. We learn to live with it. After a while our friends stop asking and we stop discussing our sorrows. It doesn't help us that much and we realize that almost everyone who we...
But even with our maturity, we must see our constraints in order to break free from them. Meridel Le Sueur wrote, Survival is resistance.
We have the capacity to build happiness into our lives with humor, concern for others, and gratitude.
Started the Thrive Project with a group of mental health professionals. We trained mentors from different cultures to be cultural brokers on mental health issues.
One of psychologist Martin Seligman’s early research projects involved giving students one of two assignments— they could do a good deed or they could give themselves a treat. He asked them to rate th...
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
The United States takes in most of the world's refugees.
Monique said, Not having to rush is the greatest luxury an American can experience these days.
Memmi believes racism has four elements—an insistence on difference, a negative valuation of that difference, the generalization of that difference to an entire group, and finally the use of that diff...
If you want to know the time, ask a dog. They always know, and they’ll tell you the correct time, which is now, now, now.
When people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from me to we, the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media cover...
Our ideas about how to deal with pain do not seem relevant to many newcomers.
Building a good day is about making good choices involving our emotions, thinking, and behavior.
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer t...
Too many people only dream at night. I like to dream during the day.
I also try not to evaluate myself in terms of the results of my actions. Rather, I focus on the quality of my interactions and the joy I feel every day.
Healing the earth is not a liberal or conservative idea— it is a form of prayer.