Enjoy a selection of the S+H team's favorite archived print articles from the past 25 years.
Chasing Happiness
Why does overvaluing happiness backfire? We dive into the effects of longing on our everyday ...
Real Love Is an Ability: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg
Real love is love that is no longer dependent on another person. Instead, love comes from a ...
Create A Living Ritual
No matter your spirituality or background, it's possible to turn every day into a living, ...
Top Ten Spiritual Heroes of 2013
Whether they drew strength from their spirituality to advocate for a better world, enriched our ...
Caffeine: The Addiction We Share … and Don’t Talk About
Is it time we admit our collective addiction to caffeine? Explore how caffeine affects us and ...
Surviving Prison
Damien Echols, once on death row, says deepening his study of Western mysticism helped him ...
The Second Coming of Psychedelics
The times, they are a'changin'—explore how psychedelic medicines have found popularity in the ...
The Commons: Mother Tongue
Half of the world’s languages could vanish by the end of the century. With each one we lose part ...
Roshi Joan Halifax on Compassion, Women in Buddhism, and Altruism
We spoke to the Upaya Zen Center founder about her understanding of suffering, shamanic studies, ...
51 Meditations for Tending the Heart Fire
Find your flow with these “micro meditations” for renewal, connection, and inner strength.
Lana Dalberg: The Divine Feminine
Rabbi Rami Shapiro spoke to activist and theologian Lana Dalberg about women's spiritual ...
Center of the Storm
Lama Surya Das shares his thoughts on walking an enlightened path in the modern world.
Bringing Grandma Home
Grandma Aggie wants to sit in her family chair. Who could say no to that? But Grandma Aggie is ...
Joy Harjo: Ancestor of a Poem
The acclaimed Native American artist, poet, and musician reflects on tapping into the creative ...
The Joy of Spring
Modern living causes us to overlook the obvious. Here’s how not to let that happen.
The Kindness of Strangers
Explore these thoughts on receiving spiritual care from someone of a different faith—and giving it.
Awakening to Walk & Talk Therapy
We cannot solve our problems wearing the same shoes we wore in creating them.
How Can People Be Deeply Spiritual and Emotionally Immature?
“What’s most simple to say is that, for our hearts to be wise and free, we have to attend to the ...
24 Hours of Tea
We've found a tea for any time of day and anything that ails you—what will you brew?
Growing the Mind to Heal the Brain
A Buddhist perspective provides a powerful, reliable roadmap for addiction recovery.
The Secret of Future Calm
As the pace of life gets faster and faster, here’s how to avoid the shock.
How Mindfulness Helps Caregivers More Than Positive Psychology
Mindfulness offers benefits for caregivers when success is “The first time I have not cried all ...
Strategic Aging
Make the most of what can be the best time of our lives.
Finding Refuge From Anxiety
One author offers her thoughts on taking a 5-week, $500 vacation from anxiety.
7 Traits Of Positive Audacity
Audacity, by its nature, breeds polarized responses. Here’s how you can judge whether your next ...
Listening to Polyamory
As more relationships open, I wanted to learn if this can be a spiritual practice for growing love.
Peace Lessons From A War Horse
Could you teach a peace-loving and exquisitely sensitive animal to carry you across a ...
The Empowered Empath
Try these three steps to get you healthy, grounded, and empowered to create a compassion ...
Why, When & How to Eat Wheat
Eating wheat is healthy—but not in the ways we typically eat it today. The solution will likely ...
How to Break the Spell of Fear
When you take control, you break fear’s spell. The concept is simple, but is difficult to ...
The Very Best Way to Pray for Peace
Explore how a CIA analyst began an interfaith quest for citizen diplomacy.
Why Worry? Find Meaning!
Happiness is for takers. Meaning is for givers. Guess who feels better?
Befriending Grief
What helped is that I finally found a purpose for this sometimes-excruciating feeling.
When Your Practice Gives You a Shove
The invitation can upend your life in ways you never expected—and create great joy. How will you ...
The Art of Caring: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski
“In Buddhism, we often talk about enlightenment or awakening, but words like that feel far away ...
Growing Elder
I thought a lot about Gladys’s comment, secretly hoping I could avoid dying from the head down ...
My New Diet Involves Cutting Out the Violence
Decreased consumption of violent media can significantly improve your quality of life—learn how.
Finding Abundance in Having Less
What happens when we measure riches in terms of relationships, spirituality, and creativity?
When Guilt is Good
"Recognizing and responding to the source of guilt with wisdom, maturity, and compassion ...
3 Best Practices for Future Happiness
“We all want our future self to be happy, so we ask: ‘What can I do to relieve this person’s ...
Finding Joy with Those Who Don't Think Like You
The two of us have been digging in to reconcile the differences between us for 15 years. What ...
How Not To Feed Your Cancer
Your cancer is uniquely yours. Get to know it—so you can help deprive it of exactly what it ...
A Paleo Guide to Hormone Replacement
Men produce reproductive hormones as they age. Why not women?
Can Healing Schools Heal Depression and Anxiety?
One author learned much on her search for something to ease her mind.
Zoloft and The Sacred
We expect antidepressants to make people feel better (or perhaps worse) but are surprised to ...
8 Best Plants for Improving Memory & Concentration
These botanicals are nontoxic and can be taken with confidence.
Why Share Your Pain
If we all speak our truth, no matter how heavy or how trivial our stories seem, then together we ...
Our Roadside Oracle Answers Life’s 5 Big Questions
Rabbi Rami Shapiro offers insight into some of life's biggest questions in celebration of our ...
Your Personal Hero Quest
Understanding our personal Hero Quests can be transformational. What stage of the Quest are you in?
7 Tales of Digital Minimalism
What we all need is a philosophy of technology use, something that covers from the ground up ...
Inner Climate Change
The world is inflamed, and so are we. Maybe the two are connected, and maybe healing our own ...
Is It Your Time to Add to the Wild Church Network?
Is the great outdoors your holy place? You might want to consider joining the Wild Church Network.
Psychedelic Medicine
Other drugs may soon follow marijuana’s path from illegal to medical to decriminalized to legal.
Find Your Path
Interspiritual wisdom to help you find your spiritual style, choose the grand questions that ...
Latest
Running on Gentle Power
Life is an ultramarathon. The best path is to access your sisu and keep your heart open.
How to Practice Shamanic Dreaming
Explore how the practice of shamanic dreaming can connect you to yourself and the world around ...
Matthew Ash McKernan Shows Us the Web of Wyrd
What is wyrd, and how can we understand its warp and weft to navigate life more skillfully? ...
Sacred Space Crashing
Looking to travel to holy sites? Explore sacred travel etiquette and learn how to make the best ...
