“I believe in the sun—even when it does not shine; I believe in love—even when it is not shown; I believe in God—even when He does not speak.” ~ found on a wall of a cellar in a Jewish concentration ...

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Why I’m finally going MAGA. ~ Waylon, founder of Elephant. Jesus says it’s high-time I’ll go where I’m wanted: the conservative movement. As I’ve written, lately, or hinted at—well if you can’t beat ...

I used to care about a lot of things. More than I want to admit. Opinions of strangers, judgments from people I barely knew, the little social niceties that slowly felt like chains. I thought being ...

For a long time, I believed well-being would arrive all at once—after things “settled,” after life became quieter, after the past stopped knocking. But life doesn’t work like that. For many of us, ...

There is a subtle but pervasive distortion happening within the language of healing. It does not announce itself loudly, nor does it come dressed in obvious cruelty. It arrives instead in the form of ...

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This month is the sacred month of Saga Dawa, when millions of Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana (passing away) over 2500 years ago. Ironically, this same month, in ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...