mental health

The World Isn’t as Bad as Your News Feed

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Age of Anxiety Many people today live their lives filled with anger and fear much of the time. I have a friend who was one of the kindest, gentlest, and most positive people I knew. However, over the past ten years, she has become increasingly negative, angry, and hateful. She became obsessed with political …

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Why Breath-Only Meditation Failed Me (and What I’m Doing Now), Pt 2

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Reading Time: 5 minutesMeditation Doesn’t Mean Shutting Your Brain Up I used to think meditation meant forcing my brain to shut up. Turns out, my brain had other plans. In Part 1 of this series, I shared how the focus-on-the-breath-and-don’t-think method of meditation didn’t work for me—and why that didn’t mean I failed. Instead, I learned to befriend …

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