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4 Tips to Practice Acceptance During the Holidays
Accepting, observing, and experiencing a different family culture as you would another country's may change your perspective.
A Fight-Like Dance
Admittedly, Capoeira isn’t for everyone. The Afro--Brazilian martial art features leg sweeps, handstands, and acrobatic exchanges between two sparring practitioners who are encircl…
Book Review: Black Man in a White Coat
Black Man in a White CoatA Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicineby Damon TweedyPicadorWhen Damon Tweedy started medical school in 1997, he learned the painful truth about medic…
Book Review: Embracing New Samaria
A book by a Mexican-American evangelical minister from Minnesota (via Laredo), written for fellow “Jesus freaks” intent on making new disciples, planting new churches, and seein…
Book Review: Finding Refuge
Synthesizing her work as a social justice activist, anti-racism trainer, and yoga teacher, Michelle Cassandra Johnson’s latest book explicitly sets out to empower readers to prio…
Book Review: Persephone Rising
Persephone RisingAwakening the Heroine WithinBy Carol S. Pearson, PhDHarperElixirI took Latin in high school, and while it’s proven fairly useless (why, O why, did I not learn to s…
Book Review: The Age of Dignity
The Age of DignityPreparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing AmericaBy Ai-jen PooTHE NEW PRESS Ai-jen Poo ends her book, The Age of Dignity, with a vision of herself at 80: w…
Breaking Borders
Exploring Colombia's Barrio Egipto—a neighborhood that foreigners are warned not to go anywhere near.
Care of the Soul: Care of the Soul, 25 Years Later
In the late 1980s, after about seven years of developing my own approach to psychotherapy, I was looking for a different way to re-imagine psychology, one that would have depth and…
Conspiracy Theories in the Spiritual Community
The QAnon conspiracy movement has invaded the wellness community, but its presence there is not as shocking as it might seem.
Diversifying Meditation
“Meditation is not only one of the best forms of relaxation; it is free, fully accessible, and easily taught. The practice can be expanded to low-income and minority populations through four simple ways.”
Entrepreneurs of Civilization
We have no wisdom traditions nearly as old as we are, and maybe that’s because we’ve buried something important.
Esther Perel: Rekindling Desire
Unlocking the mystery of sexuality, intimacy and desire in the 21st Century
Film Review: The Human Face of Big Data
The Human Face of Big DataSandy SmolanRoco FilmsSandy Smolan’s documentary plays at times like an infomercial for Big Data—the technological phenomenon by which the millions of bit…
Film Review: The Pearl Button
The Pearl ButtonPatricio GuzmanKino LorberThe Chilean director Patricio Guzman has spent his career chronicling the murders, tortures, and other injustices committed in his country…
Honoring Our Ancestors: They are Closer than We Think
by Kim Nash Do you ever think about your ancestors—distant relatives whom you may have never met but you somehow feel connected to? Perhaps you’ve seen a photograph of them,…
