It’s winter, and everyone close to me (including my best faraway friends) is feeling sort of stuck. The feeling of “stuck-ness” hit me around Thanksgiving, and I’m still in the thick of it. So much so, in fact, that it took me a while to… READ MORE
Could Your Social Anxiety be Caused by a Nutrient Deficiency?
Dear fellow shy person, inrovert, or sufferer of social anxiety: I would never advocate that you should be anyone other than who you are meant to be. For some of us, though, the tension caused by how difficult it is to simply be ourselves in… READ MORE
How Forgiveness Is Like Time Travel
Holding on to resentment about another person is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to experience it instead. Or so says the adage attributed to Nelson Mandela, Buddha, Dr. Wayne Dyer, or Alcoholics Anonymous. But sometimes the alternative, forgiveness, is almost an alien… READ MORE
The Setback Known As the Same Old You
Maybe you’ve been looking over your shoulder for a while, expecting her to surface at any moment. Or maybe she’ll completely blindside you. But there is one thing you can be sure of: The old you will show up again, and it will feel like… READ MORE
Improve Your Vagal Tone Via Singing
Why do so many singers talk about music getting them through hard times? Having an outlet for those difficult feelings is certainly part of it, but perhaps there’s another kind of tone at work in the healing process – vagal tone. The Vagus Nerve Its… READ MORE
Why Telling Yourself “Don’t” Is Like Telling Yourself “Do”
How many times have you told yourself something along the lines of, “Don’t be awkward. Don’t be awkward.” And then as soon as you opened your mouth, you said the most awkward thing? Why You Do What You Don’t Want to Do Why do we… READ MORE