The key is action: putting problems to rest, reaching out to others, focusing on doing rather than outcome.

Disappointment can stay with you longer than it should. This mental time-travel exercise can help you get unstuck.

AI is the hottest game in town, but it is not new. The big question is "can it be programmed to be conscious?" That logic misunderstands both the brain and consciousness.

Reconstructing altered states of consciousness using psychedelics and other consciousness-modifying techniques to study the ...

A client who survived a near-death experience (NDE) came back with a word for everyone else: “muggles,” borrowed from Harry ...

Freud tells you why. CBT tells you how. Buddhism tells you to let go. But none, one expert argues, tell you whether what you’re doing right now will make you happier later.

As an adult, your parents’ divorce can change your role in the family. There are ways to support them without becoming their ...

Parents don’t need more guilt. But neither do they need to be positioned as having no part to play to help. A family systems ...

When we look deep inside ourselves, we often encounter fun house mirrors. Self-knowledge is in part seeing the distortions ...

Lithium steadied my brain's circuits. But what brought me home was a mother who kept showing up, attuned to the man beneath ...

The question isn’t “Does this child have a diagnosis?” but “What can they handle right now?” Confusing the two can lead ...

Why does it take losing something to see it more clearly? One ancient Egyptian goddess got so tired of being overlooked that she left and took the rain with her.