I distinctly remember the day I sat in my junior English class after returning from Christmas break. My teacher asked us what our New Year’s resolutions were for the year. To be honest, I can’t remember mine, but I remember a classmate’s: starting a gratitude journal . That sounded like a good idea...

Harvard behavioral social scientist and author of "The Happiness Files" Arthur C. Brooks argues that self-doubt is usually evidence of healthy humility—not incompetence—and a clear contrast to the overconfidence of “dark-triad” personalities. Brooks shows executives how to reframe imposter feelings...

“Do I have my emotions or do my emotions have me? Have I graduated past the level of emotional intelligence that most people get stuck in? That, of a nine-year-old? Is it possible to live a life of freedom inside of a clarified understanding of where I end and others begin? Do I live with an...

Wherever you go… you’re still there. Most of us don’t realize how much of our lives are built around trying to escape ourselves. We stay busy. We stay entertained. We stay scrolling, watching, working, planning, talking — anything to avoid being alone in the quiet with our own thoughts. Because...

The other day I was chatting with a friend over hot tea, discussing a change she was noticing in her significant other. His problems all seemed to boil down to low self-esteem, and she said, “I’m actually sort of surprised he’s insecure. I’ve always perceived him as being super-confident because...

When was the last time you experienced loneliness? Do you recall the feeling? The enveloping ache and the swarm of emotions—the sadness, the anxiousness, the uncertainty, the smallness, the shame, even—that the experience entailed? Terrible, wasn’t it? Do you recall what it was like to feel “on the...

My wife is employed in the disaster-relief sector of the international NGO space. She and her colleagues serve people who find themselves amid sudden need during unforeseen disasters. Recently, my wife’s work took her to the Canadian Prairies, a significant segment of which have been ravaged this...

Sr. Mary Grace, SV speaks to the places in us that feel bent over by shame, fear, lies, suffering, and disappointment. Drawing ...

I spent nearly two decades as a clinician in psychology, and the truth of the matter is I never would have gotten there had it not been for a couple of people in particular who saw in me what I could not see in myself. I was an abysmal failure in my high school days and academics were not something...