Every day, folks walk into an office full of people doing all kinds of activities. Some may log into Zoom, Teams, or Slack to connect with their fellow co-workers, clients, vendors, and... Read more »
Many of us in the United States report feeling empty or hollow. Sometimes couched as loneliness, dissatisfaction, disconnection, depression, disquiet, or weariness, it seems as if more people are struggling with a... Read more »
We live in a time when it is easier than ever to be looked at. We can post a photo, appear on video, update a profile, check our reflection, track our image,... Read more »
People whose sight loss is the result of damage to incoming sensory pathways to the brain may develop the visual hallucinations of Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). The primary feature of CBS is... Read more »
Goblintimacy, a clever mash-up of the words goblin and intimacy, is a dating trend where instead of leading with your best presentation of self, you take a deep gulp and do the... Read more »
There is a particular kind of loneliness that gets almost no airtime in relationship research: the loneliness of being with someone who doesn’t quite see you. Not someone cruel, not someone absent.... Read more »
We constantly overfeed our brains with digital inputs. Discover how to practice “mental fasting” to heal emotional exhaustion and restore your inner peace. I remember eating at a restaurant in Monaco with... Read more »
Nearly 40 years ago, while working toward my Ph.D., I enrolled in an advanced Italian literature course to satisfy a language requirement. Because of my Italian heritage, my having studied the language... Read more »
One of the things we hear from parents is that they feel terrible after losing their temper with their child. That temper flare could look like yelling or lobbing unreasonable consequences for... Read more »
Every once in a while, as a collector, I am exasperated. It has little to do with forming my collection, which is a joy. Rather, it has to do with gifting objects... Read more »