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As Gabore Maté writes in his book on ADHD, Scattered Minds, “A child taught to disregard or mistrust her innermost feelings and thoughts assumes automatically that there is something shameful about them, and therefore about her very self.” Children learn to distrust or disregard their…

In Rebecca Solint’s book, Hope In the Dark, she writes, “It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine….Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivete.” I like…

In Rutger Bergman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History he writes, “Every good deed is like a pebble in a pond, sending ripples out in all directions. We don’t typically see how our generosity cascades through the social network…to affect the lives of dozens or even hundreds…

Shame is something we feel when we violate social norms. It’s a feeling of humiliation when we have done something we believe is immoral, dishonorable or improper. It leads us to view ourselves as shameful, or bad. In moments when we are feeling shame we…

As Pink sings in her song All I Know So Far, “Haven’t always been this way. I wasn’t born a renegade. I felt alone, still feel afraid, I stumble through it anyway. I wish someone would have told me that this life is ours to…

In Rutger Bergman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History he writes, “Is it any wonder then that loneliness can quite literally make us sick? That a lack of human contact is comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day? That having a pet lowers our risk of depression?…