The Sleep-Tech Boom: Can We Measure, Map, and Hack Our Way to Better Zs?

When it comes to improving sleep, do measuring apps and biohacks help or hinder? The answer isn’t the same for everyone.

The Future of Medicine

The Limitations of Concrete: Disease Is a Verb, Not a Noun

Reality is constantly in flux. Life is ever-changing. Remembering that illness isn't a solid identity is a step toward embracing healing possibilities.

Attending to Your Sacred Body

“What is absent from medicine, and even from most spiritual communities, is the understanding of our own bodies as the living sacred.”

Dying Without Religion: The Existential Concern

Does a nonspecific spirituality (aka spiritual but not religious) suffice to address existential qualms at death's door?

Your Prescription: Look at Art

“Meditation on the 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece was prescribed to the sick. ... Could art still accomplish a miracle of comfort and consolation today ... and remind people of their mortality while also mitigating fear ... and instilling hope? ... Maybe it’s time to bring this practice of the past into the present—as a way to move into the future.”

The Lost Art of Dying

Lydia Dugdale, author of The Lost Art of Dying, on the art of dying and why we should instead face our finitude squarely—while we still can.

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

“Over time, feeding and caring for my being this way, along with nourishing other diverse aspects of my life, built my fortitude to transform family meals into a time of warmth and care, ending a legacy of trauma and neglect.”

All the Feels: How Feeling Your Feelings Can Teach You to Heal

“We do not get to choose what feelings arise or how intensely we feel them. Our only choice is in how we relate to them.”