Have you ever opened a boring work email or looked at a plain photo, yet felt an unexpected wave of sadness or negativity? You aren’t imagining things, and you aren’t “just being... Read more »
Family estrangement has been framed in major media outlets as everything from a “growing trend” to a “social epidemic.” But this framing reveals a deep cultural bias: When the act of estrangement... Read more »
Do you feel like you are constantly running just to stay in the same place? You check your email every five minutes. You answer Slack messages instantly. You have ten tabs open.... Read more »
As a gratitude researcher, I’m encouraged by its growing popularity in mainstream culture. Most people like gratitude and want to be grateful. And the benefits are undeniable. Grateful people tend to be... Read more »
As a daughter of Black River, Jamaica, the four weeks after Hurricane Melissa made landfall on October 28, 2025 have been so so hard. I went to Black River Primary School and... Read more »
Most of us love scary stories. When we were children, spooky creatures thrilled us and populated our fantasies and dreams. Back then, the terrors had names and identities: zombies, vampires, yetis, space... Read more »
Long before the pandemic of 2020 began, the former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had already declared an epidemic of loneliness in our nation. The impact of loneliness affects our mental and physical... Read more »
Doidge (2010), referring to a study undertaken by Michael Merzenich et al. (1983), found that “[w]hen it came to allocating brain‑processing power,” the brain allocated “[its] neurological resources” to those parts of... Read more »
Everyone’s heard that expression, “Life is for the living.” I’ve always assumed living in this context was a noun referencing all people currently alive. Now I’m looking at it as a verb.... Read more »
Will and I have discovered certain phrases that help us to make sense of our lives, enabling us to cope with what comes our way. I marvel at how now, in our... Read more »