The damaging effects of overly focusing on anxiety in teens and how Inside Out 2 gets it all wrong.

By Courtney Edwards, MS, BCC Before I tried meditation, I had a lot of erroneous ideas about what it was for, how I should do it, and...

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I used to think happiness was this constant state of elation. I mean that's what we're told it is. When we're happy according to the...

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There’s this really popular cliche people like to tell the bereaved when they’re suffering and mired in grief. You’re probably familiar...

“I dunno, Jen, I don’t know what happened. I used to be the guy who helped everyone and now I just can’t. The world’s changed. I just...

There's this scene in the now cult classic movie"Dirty Dancing" where Baby meets Johnny for the first time. Johnny is the resident hottie...

Letting go doesn't mean forgetting. How we deal with pain depends on nowness.

It happened, guys! A little over a week ago, Milo and I debuted on Frankie Picasso's radio show, "Mission Unstoppable". Honestly, I had...

Photo by Samuel Silitonga from Pexels I remember the moment I checked my voicemail at 12:30 p.m.on June 20, 2006. I’d just gone grocery...

A close friend of mine called yesterday (we'll call him Adam for the purposes of anonymity). He recently lost his father to suicide and...

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This is Gus. He was probably the greatest guinea pig I've ever known. And as you can see in this pic, he was pretty annoyed at the time....

Photo courtesy of https://www.pexels.com/@cottonbro What do Corona hair, courage and meditation have in common? Whelp, like most people...

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