I came across this headline for a blog (Educating for Inner and Outer Development) on the…
Every few years my husband’s family hosts a large family reunion. These are enormous gatherings of approximately…
NYTimes Op-Ed columnist David Brooks grapples with the push and pull of resume…
Over the past decade I have counseled high school students as they write their college…
This is a beautiful story told in a TED talk by a woman named Elizabeth Lesser. It is about giving her sister a bone marrow donation to try to save her life. It is also about opening your heart, taking the first steps toward compassion and forgiveness, and finding peace with yourself and others:
It is difficult to prove that something is a good idea, but as it turns out, science has been…
Nurturing friendships may be one of the most important health measure we can take, on par with getting enough exercise and sleep. Loneliness, it turns out, can impact our immune system negatively. And the good news about maintaining friendships…a little bit goes long way. A lot of…
Lily Yoseph lives in Sausalito, a beautiful well-to-do city in California now, but she was born and raised in in the rural village of…
Bullied as a young woman, Yalda Modabber recognized the value of teaching empathy to children in the classroom, starting in preschool. As it turns out, this approach is about much more that classroom harmony or protecting the feelings of certain students. A recent study from Duke and Penn State…
