Upcoming releases from noted names and new discoveries from your next favorite artist
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Book Review: Neurodharma
We can leverage mental tools to tap into desired feelings of calm, contentment, peace, focus, and non-judgement, and move away from stress and anxiety.
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Book Review: Compassionate Conversations
The authors put power dynamics and social privilege in context, making it clear why so-called “politically incorrect” speech can be hurtful to the marginalized and disenfranchised.
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Book Review: The Buddhist on Death Row
How one prisoner learned the power of Buddhism’s fundamental message: that all beings experience pains and troubles, but we can learn to reduce how much suffering we derive from them.
Music
Music Review: Earth
If there was ever any doubt that Radiohead wouldn’t be Radiohead without guitarist Ed O’Brien, he annihilates it within the first 20 seconds of “Shangri-La,” the kickoff track…Music
Music Review: 2020
After devoting the bulk of the lyrics on her 2018 album Secularia to spirituality and mortality, Austin, Texas, folk singer Eliza Gilkyson has resumed her role as town crier. …Film
Film Review: The Mindfulness Movement
There have been lots of documentaries in recent years about various aspects of mindfulness, but Rob Beemer’s The Mindfulness Movement seeks to be a total guide to the many div…Books
Book Review: The End of Mental Illness by Dr. Daniel Amen
Considering the statistic that “about every 14 minutes, someone dies by suicide in the United States”, there is a dire need to address and combat depression and mental illness…Books
Book Review: What Are We Supposed to Be Eating?
The world of food has gotten so complicated these days. Should you stick to the Mediterranean diet or give Whole30 a go? Is veganism better than vegetarianism? Should you fast intermittently, track your macros, or try carb cycling? Wait, what is carb cycling? These two books cut through the clutter and provide nutritional clarity.
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Book Review: Death Is But a Dream
“The prejudices of present-day medical training have caused an inability to see dying as anything but failure,” writes Christopher Kerr in Death Is But a Dream, “and they compromis…Books
Book Review: The XX Brain
The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease