Can We Actually Change a Person’s Mind? (And What About Our Own?)
While political tensions certainly seem to be at an all-time high, it’s also true that we’ve long been a nation divided. Even if not recently, at some point many of … Read more
Dr. Ashley Solomon
How to Break Free from Urgency Culture
There’s a version of Murphy’s Law that’s held true in my house since children came into the picture. It says: the more of a rush we’re in, the more impossible … Read more
Incrementalism in an Age of Despair
“Maybe working on the little things as as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.” – Haruki Murakami There are … Read more
On how to stop making things worse (in three steps)
A while back, my ex-husband sent me what I perceived as a nasty text message . To be fair, we’d had a pretty tense exchange earlier that day when I … Read more
On eating the strawberry
In one of my very favorite of her books, The Wisdom of No Escape, the American-born Buddhist teacher, Pema Chödrön, recounts a story that I’ve been finding myself returning to … Read more
High-Bandwidth Minds and the Mental Health Mismatch
Many years ago now, when one of my children was going through an evaluation process for suspected ADHD, I stumbled into the world of twice exceptionality. Often abbreviated as “2e,” … Read more
On staying in the hot seat
The early evening sun was just starting to dip behind the trees as we removed our shoes and rinsed our feet. We were a group of twelve or so strangers … Read more
Wicked, Weight, and the Whiplash We’re Not Talking About
Author’s Note: As you read this, please note that this essay isn’t a critique of Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, or any individual’s body or health (or the rightness or wrongness … Read more
5 Questions on Movement as Resistance with Emily Decker
It’s been a minute since I sent you one of these interviews. Emily Decker was in fact one of the first people I reached out to ask to participate. She … Read more
On the art of holding back
I’ll get right to it and tell you that today I’m talking about the concept of restraint – and you should know that I literally groaned to myself when I … Read more
All the Way to the River (and Back Again)
The other day I was listening to a podcast interview with Elizabeth Gilbert about her latest book, All the Way to the River. My husband was in the car, and … Read more
Can we make marriage good for women?
Not long ago, Kristen Bell shared a post to celebrate her anniversary with Dax Shepherd. She wrote: “Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I … Read more