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2022 May/June
Relationship and Rebirth
From The Editor
Columns
Magic Mushroom Retreats
Interested in psychedelic change? Magic mushroom retreats may be an appealing option.
Beyond Optimism and Pessimism
What’s up with being in the world but not of it? And why do bad things happen to good people?
“Dog Mind” and the Cone of Mindfulness
Wearing a "cone of mindfulness" can help protect our spiritual and mental wellbeing during trying times.
Keep Meditating
Part of our happiness experience comes from allowing ourselves to be in relationship with all of our life experiences, without labeling them good, bad, or neutral.
Self-Care Tips from Slow Animals and Helpful Droids
While animals are good inspiration for self-care ideas, droids are excellent for helping maintain motivation.
Balance Is as Close as Your Body’s Rhythm
“All of your biological subengines are interdependent; eating patterns affect sleeping patterns, sleeping and exercise patterns affect alertness and metabolic health, and so on.”
Features
Featured Artist: Alena Hennessy
S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with North Carolina–based artist Alena Hennessy about her favorite color, describing the painting process in words, and finding a personal style.
5 Care Tips: Sacrum
The sacrum is all about balance and symmetry. Protect your sacrum with practical advice.
Restoring Relationships
Australian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Fariha Róisín on restoring relationships to ourselves, to one another, and to the earth.
Logging Into Online Wellness
Learning can improve our quality of life—and the effect is twofold for courses on wellness and self-betterment.
re/VIEW: Billy Collins
In his newest collection, beloved poet Billy Collins includes poems about spiders, Arizona, funerals, and how to eat a banana.
Connections
100 Sounds and a Culture of Listening
With inspiration from a sociological program in Japan, explore new, more intentional ways of tuning into sound.
Reading as a Spiritual Exercise
Reading isn’t just about gaining new knowledge or relaxing. It can be a spiritual practice in its own right.
Gifts From the Departed
Accept gifts from your lost loved ones, even if doing so is difficult. A grief educator explains why.
Making Space for Big Work
Ever wonder where all the time went? Discover how to create more room for what matters.
Come Together
It’s a dilemma: How to find a spiritual community if you’re not attending religious services.
Toolbox
Toolbox: Moonlit Path
The moon is our constant companion, bestowing healing energy, wonder, and serenity through curious gazing. A symbol of transformation, the moon invites new changes each month.
Reviews
Book Review: Judaism Without Tribalism
With precision derived from decades of immersive experience and devoted thought, Rabbi Rami Shapiro investigates the diverse branches of Judaism to reveal a creative path that is o…
Book Review: Ritual as Remedy
What does it feel like to be a body on this earth, a mind processing this life, and a spiritual being stuck somewhere in the disorienting middle? Ritual as Remedy prods us to refle…
Book Review: Dream Guidance
Cultivating a practice of not just recalling but recording and understanding dreams is at the heart of dream incubation. With Machiel Klerk’s cheerful Dream Guidance, readers learn…
Book Review: Secrets From a Herbalist’s Garden
From the title, you might think Secrets From a Herbalist’s Garden is about gardening. From the subtitle, “A Magical Year of Plant Remedies,” you might think the book is about medic…
Film Review: Midwives
Despite the title, Burmese director Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s riveting documentary isn’t really about childbirth. Except, perhaps, for its opening scene, which shows us intimate footag…
Film Review: All That Breathes
Winner of the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is a film as gorgeous as it is ambitious, as stirring as it …
Music Review: Life on Earth
Life on Earth is the eighth studio album from Alynda Segarra and their band Hurray for the Riff Raff. Minimal electronic synth-rock is the raft these songs ride upon, with lyrics t…
Music Review: Satchel of Songs
Diane Patterson’s sixth studio album, Satchel of Songs, was released on International Women’s Day (March 8). Patterson told S&H, “I see International Women’s Day as part of the sac…
