We often engage in behaviors that worsen our lives, but all of them can be summarized as two key points. We often sabotage our lives by ignoring our weaknesses, thinking they're not urgent enough to address. We also tend to overlook our strengths, failing to develop the potential that could...

2 Things We Constantly Do That Make Our Lives Worse

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

An Australian team used taste aversion to teach freshwater crocodiles to avoid toxic, invasive cane toads. Crocodiles developed aversions after encounters with cane toad baits designed to induce nausea but not kill. Crocodiles generalized this aversion to live, wild cane toads, and crocodile mortality was greatly reduced. Behavioral interventions targeting...

A Surprising Way to Fight Invasive Species

There is no timeline for memory recovery. We can meet those memories with curiosity and radical acceptance. Give yourself support, understanding, and grace. I've never really liked the dentist as an adult, but never thought much about it. But recently, I had a dentist appointment scheduled, and, as the day went on, something kept nagging at me. After a few hours, the nervousness had become straight-up fear. "It's just the dentist! What are you so scared of?" I kept asking myself throughout the morning as the appointment grew closer. I could not put my finger on it. As I grew more and more fearful, I started to feel like my younger self, the one who found herself in an environment where she was not always safe. This realization caused me to stop what I was doing, find a quiet space, and try to understand what my younger self was trying to tell me. Over the years, I've learned to listen to her and to approach this feeling with curiosity instead of judgment. It doesn't happen often anymore, but, when it does, I listen.

What a Trauma Memory From 16 Years Ago Taught Me

Acceptance isn’t about liking or approving a situation; it’s about recognizing reality without judgement. Acceptance helps us move from resisting to taking action and working with what is within our control. Practicing acceptance can foster resilience and lead to improved mental and emotional well-being. In life, we will...

How the Practice of Acceptance Can Help You Get Unstuck

Cooking With Maryann

I love macaroni salads, and this is truly a special one. It's got something for all of the tastebuds and textures. Soft, crunchy, chewy, sweet, savory, tart, creamy, and oh so fresh! Here's what you'll need to make 8-10 side servings:

Amish Macaroni Salad

When relationships end, always ask yourself whether you actually ended up dodging a bullet in the process. How a person ends a relationships may reveal their true nature. Rather than dwelling on what went wrong, instead turn to what went right: You got right out of there. Yes, break-ups of...

3 Words to Help You Get Over a Relationship Break-Up

Pride often gets in the way of love. Love means being vulnerable, which can conflict with our need to self-protect. Excessive pride and self-preservation create significant emotional problems. The only way to protect yourself from heartache is to get to a place where, as noted by James Caan in Thief,...

Control is the Opposite of Love

Using metaphors to describe the therapeutic process can help patients better understand their healing journey. For example, the metaphor of a plaster cast helps patients recognize that the body heals itself with support. Greater understanding of and comfort with the process can make therapy more effective. I have often used...

6 Metaphors for Healing

The US Sun

THE mum of an aspiring actress who died suddenly on a cruise ship says more must be done to solve crimes at sea. Ashley Barnett died in October 2005 on a cruise while celebrating her 25th birthday with her boyfriend and friends. Nearly 20 years later, Ashley's heartbroken mum, Jamie,...

My daughter died suddenly on a cruise on her 25th birthday – I still have no answers 20yrs on after cops missed key clue

As I recover from my recent surgery, I continue to experience periodic pain in my abdomen where the surgical incisions were made. The pain is not coming from the incisions, but seems to be coming from deep within my belly. Less than a week after the surgery, I was doing well, managing my post-op pain only with Tylenol, when the pain suddenly became intolerable, and I went to the emergency room. They did a CT scan of my stomach and couldn’t find anything. I saw the surgeon a couple of days later and he also had no explanation. The pain has decreased some and I manage it with Toradol which doesn’t make me drowsy. I wonder how long it’s going to last, and if it is me somatizing—or if the doctors somehow missing something?

Borderline Personality Disorder and the Pain Paradox

The term "gaslighting" is now so widely used that it is at risk of losing meaning. Recent efforts to define "gaslighting" distort and constrain its use. Gaslighting is not always intentional and does not necessarily involve falsehood. The term "gaslighting" originated in 1938, but it was not until about 2010...

Is the Term "Gaslighting" in Trouble?

Envy is based on black-and-white thinking, which exaggerates the good and bad in our comparisons to others. While sometimes motivating, envy can be at least just as debilitating. Taking responsibility for our contributions to envy may help us enjoy ignored parts of our lives. For the perfectionist, envy is often...

Envy Is Often Based on Delusional Thinking

The art market alternates between booms and busts. During the busts, owners may want to rid themselves of art that disappointed them. This may result in an early deaccession, sometimes at bargain prices. Under these conditions, once valued art can be shed and even discarded. The fluctuating fortunes of the...

The Collector's Conundrum: Balancing Booms With Busts

Since the invention of the smartphone, much of our social interactions are through online platforms. The rewiring of childhood can cause stunted development in our capacity to form real-life relationships. There are risks in investing too much of ourselves in virtual relationships instead of real ones. The 2013 movie Her,...

The Dangers of AI-Generated Romance

It's important for parents to know how to manage their own anxiety before tackling it in their kids. Be curious and create an opportunity for your child to talk about their feelings. Validate your child's emotions and collaborate with them on ways to cope. Back-to-school time can stimulate anxiety in...

How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety

If there was one thing I was concerned about when I was younger, it was how to react to a stray dog or a puppy in need of help. Being a kid, I was afraid that the dog would growl or bite me. Looking upon it now that I know better, that fear was quite unfounded.

Woman Was In Disbelief When She Realized What Was In The Plastic Bag Near The Road

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Nostalgia has a funny way of playing tricks on your mind. It's like when you try to recall the lyrics to a song that you thought meant a lot to you. You're sure you know them by heart, but they vanish. Then you hear the chorus and it all comes rushing at you like a steam engine.

8 TV Shows You Totally Forgot Existed

Revealing a terrible diagnosis requires an intelligent, caring response, not unwarranted optimism. Instead of looking for the "right" words or actions, first understand how the person's world has changed. Eventually, you will be faced with responding to someone's life-changing diagnosis. Will you be ready?. Compassion, not linguistic options should guide...

Caring Responses to "I Have Cancer, Parkinsons, Alzheimer’s"

Many astronauts who have viewed the Earth from space recall experiencing the “overview effect.” This is a profound positive shift in perspective and involves experiencing a sense of awe and a new understanding of the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Astronauts are often overwhelmed with emotion while taking...

2 Ways the "Overview Effect" Can Make You Feel Alive

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Why “I Mean” Became the New Thing

Discourse markers add pragmatic information to conversations. “I mean” is often used as a discourse marker at the beginning of our sentences. Its recent uptick represents...

Why “I Mean” Became the New Thing

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