This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be take...
It seems counterintuitive that more choice leads to more depression. However, when we increase people's opportunities for control, we increase their expectations of control and their sense of responsi...
The Ability to Calm Down
The Ability to Love New People
The Ability to Pay Attention
The English language contains the words poignant and bittersweet, but it is challenging to find other words to describe the complex emotional states we feel as we run out of time. Our inner experience...
Children are a great aid in both stress reduction and joy production.
Dear sisters, I hope that we can experience bliss. I want us to sense how big life is—how intense, joyful, painful, complicated, and beautiful our lives can be. Let us embrace everything. This can be...
The cure for the pain is the pain. Unprocessed pain almost always leads to something much worse than pain. Opening ourselves up to our emotional reactions to that world and allowing ourselves to feel...
Freedom is the ability to make conscious choices in accord with our deepest values. It is the opposite of reactivity, which we could define as acting on every whim, impulse, and emotion that we experi...
We accept our grandchildren for the unique beings they are. This acceptance gives them the confidence to feel they are worthy of the deep love they are given. It helps them see the universe as safe.
People don't need to die for us to experience loss. Holly was losing her local family to a move. It felt to her as if there would be a death. In the 1800s, the Irish had emigration wakes for their fam...
Great personal suffering can sometimes deepen our souls to the point they crack open and let in great beauty.
We are the daughters of time, the children of mothers who fed us, rocked us, sang us songs, and kept us safe.
Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the p...
One of the secrets of happiness is having a host of activities that we can enjoy when we are alone. The more we can do this, the more likely we are to enjoy our lives as we age.
Happiness correlates with reasonable expectations.
How did I choose my friends, what did I feel passionate about, what books I enjoyed and why, and what did I think my talents were?
Psychic dismemberment, which is the loss of our identity, our ways of thinking, and our sense of self.
Realized that the prayers had all been answered. Not by anything I did, nor necessarily by anything that happened to the people I was praying for, but rather because time had made those particular pro...
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