Haven't read Part 1? Check it out here!   Welcome back, friend. So, you’ve taken the leap. You got out of the house, met some people, maybe even asked for a follow-up hang. That’s huge. But now the question is: how do you make it last? Friendship, like any living thin...

  Are you lonely?   Do you have a close partner or friends, or a wider social network? Do you have people you can connect with, and depend on? Whether or not you have these things, do you feel lonely day to day?   Connection is a basic human need, but it’s one that many of us feel w...

The spiritual and scientific loss of a generation There’s a lot we don’t know. In science; in the world; in our lives. A lot we try to manage through action, when the iceberg of its totality is something we can barely touch. A lot we distract from. The main practice of our generation, it seems, i...

  There was a time, not so long ago, when curiosity felt like an impossible skill for me. I would sit in a conversation, racking my brain for anything I could say. The only options were to talk about myself - which felt awkward unless they’d asked - say a non sequitur, or come up with a question...

How to express ourselves and help others understand   “It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” — Abraham Harold Maslow   What does it mean to be authentic?  Is authenticity total honesty in all your words and actions? Is it following your imp...

Trauma ripples into communities like a wave, touching not individuals alone but entire networks of people. As I sat with Dr. Sarilee Kahn today, I was drawn into the layered complexity of shared grief. Her stories -most particularly her work in Afghanistan in the wake of a terrorist attack- offer...