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Core Reflections
Meditation teacher Tara Brach offers explorations of kindness and beauty and how to be in the stillness of their truth.
2021 May/June
Your Secret Power
Connections
What’s Your Why?
Don’t get lost on the path to finding your purpose. Discover your “why” in three ways.
The Good Quit
Why is it so hard to walk away from some situations? Maybe it’s time to call it quits.
Coaxing Your Adrenals Back to Health
Intuitive healing practitioner Muneeza Ahmed lists eight steps to get your energy back.
Back From Burnout
The trauma of the past year has triggered a burnout crisis. Discovery ways to restore balance from an expert.
The Talking Tree
Shamanic practitioner (and emergency medic) Winter Ross met a sister in a wounded ponderosa pine.
Yoga for Caregivers
Caregivers need care too. Explore the best yoga-based solutions for soothing the caregiver’s heart, mind, and body.
7 Habits of People Who Awaken
Protestant minister—and Buddhist meditation teacher—Victor M. Parachin identifies the habits that can lead to wisdom.
Poetry Page
The Poetry Page: Andrea Potos
“The poems in Marrow of Summer are my way of appreciating, honoring, and preserving: to remember Love in all its past and present forms.”
Toolbox
Toolbox: Wood Goods
Nature’s good for us. Try out wooden goods to bring the glorious natural world into your home.
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RE/VIEW: Anne Lamott
“Folk hero” among writers Anne Lamott revisits her life from writing to sobriety to creativity and her relationship with God.
Community Champion: Amanda Thomashow, Survivor Strong
Lansing, Michigan-based Survivor Strong founder Amanda Thomashow shares how her organization is providing tools for prevention, support, and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault.
Namaste: Let’s Keep It After the Pandemic
This non-touch method of saying hello and goodbye is something you should continue even after it’s deemed okay to hug again.
Featured Artist: Adrian Landon Brooks
S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with Wimberley, Texas-based Adrian Landon Brooks about living in the country, “painting on weird objects,” geometric patterns, and more.
Columns
Embrace the Transition
In a time of change and uncertainty, what can be done to ease the transition?
Father’s Final Words Not the Last Word
Psychotherapist Kevin Anderson offers advice to S&H readers. “As professionally prepared as you were for your father’s dying process, there are no credentials or letters after our names that can fully prepare us for losing a loved one.”
“Overcoming” Original Sin
Rabbi Rami Shapiro answers questions from S&H readers. “How do you overcome Original Sin?”
Features
Fierce and Tender Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff, PhD, created the scale that psychologists worldwide use to measure self-compassion. Now she reveals the hidden superpower that makes being kind to yourself a primal force for justice.
From The Editor
From the Editor: The Transition Is Here
S&H Editor-in-Chief Ben Nussbaum reflects on happiness and transition as the world enters into a new normal.
Reviews
Film Review: Our Friend
Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and adapted by screenwriter Brad Ingelsby from Matthew Teague’s award-winning 2015 article, the film focuses partly on the remarkable bond shared by these three people.
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Film Review: Bedlam
Bedlam offers a sobering look at the devastating toll of mental illness on patients, families, medical professionals, and society.
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Music Review: Ilanga (The Sun)
Afrika Mamas was founded in South Africa in 1998 by Ntombi Lushaba. The riveting a cappella group is made up of Lushaba and five other single mothers, with 11 children between them.
Book Review: The Comfort Crisis
“Do hard things and the rest of life gets easier”
Book Review: Outsmart Pain
Mindfulness and Vipasana meditation teacher Christiane Wolf kicks off her second book by introducing us to a simple equation: “Suffering = pain x resistance.”
Book Review: Rooted
Lyanda Lynn Haupt loved being raised Catholic. The mysterious, untamed nature of the faith as she received it—and its ecstatic saints like Thérèse of Lisieux—illuminated the goodness of the created world.
Book Review: The Gut-Immune Connection
How do we protect our immune systems? During the COVID pandemic, we’ve been washing our hands, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated. But our bodies have been under siege for much longer.
