Caregiving comes with emotions ranging from joy to confusion and resentment. It can be grounding to remind yourself that this role has chosen you because you are capable.
6 Ways to Transform From Headcase to Shero
Your performance is more than cognitive and physical preparation. Your mental game—managing your self-talk and emotions—is just as important. Here’s why.
What am I missing? Part 2: Applying Attachment Theory to Treatment and Recovery
Addiction is an attachment disorder. Human beings, addicts or not, only know and repeat what was modeled for them during childhood. I like to call ages 0-10 healthy narcissism given …
Why Findings on Alcohol and Health Are So Confusing
Does your head spin when trying to understand recent findings on alcohol and health? How scientists classify abstainers and drinkers plays a big role.
The Power of Embracing Uncertainty
Accepting life’s unpredictability can enhance growth, creativity, and well-being.
‘Awe’ in the Heavens
Can a total solar eclipse change your life? For millions of Americans, it may have.
Respecting Animal Sentience and Rejecting Human Elitism
A new collection of essays asks us to do away with anthropocentric arrogance, honor animal emotions and agency, and view nonhumans as somebody who wants to flourish.
Snakes, Self-Recognition, and Sociality
What does it mean if snakes pass a self-recognition test, and how might that ability relate to their social lives?
The Roots of Evil
Psychopaths and dark triad personalities show the same pattern of childhood trauma and emotional deprivation. They are not born but made.
The Sustainable Food Solution That Satisfies No One
The behavioral psychology behind why consumers continue to shun half-meat, half-plant blended products despite them being a no-brainer for climate, health and even taste.