By Katharine Quarmby — 2015
How misperceptions about disability can prevent people with physical and cognitive impairments from being able to express their sexuality.
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Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
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Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.
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Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.
Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain. It is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain—you must also use it.
Date night is so last year. What you ought to want is a meeting night. It may not be the sexiest concept, but listen up: This couple swears it's the way to guarantee true happiness, long term.
It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression.
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Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less. It happens when you commit with all of yourself to a new way of life, to a new future. So how do you do this?
Despite a culture organizing to oppose shaming, it remains inevitable. But it doesn’t have to ruin lives.
The Buddhist meditation practice is over 1,500 years old, but modern science says it has very real mental and physical health benefits.
Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.