There are times in life when you feel lost, confused, and directionless. At times, it’s a feeling that’s been lingering on for a while, and other times it could be that you just woke up feeling like ...

It was one of those early spring days that hadn’t fully committed yet. Crisp in the shade, warm in the light, the air carrying that specific quality that only exists in the few weeks before everything ...

I was still single in my 40s and my friends couldn’t understand why. “You’re so amazing! You’re interested in so many things, have such cool hobbies.” “You’re so capable, from putting up IKEA ...

The alarm blares. She’s not waking up—she’s activating. The to-do list starts running before her feet even hit the floor: breakfast, packed lunches, that one lost shoe, the email to the school. Half a ...

You will always encounter some people in your life with whom you’d be able to talk about anything under the sun except your emotions and emotional needs. There are some people with whom talking about ...

Spiritual & Historical Roots: A Reflection On African Descent Hair in the U.S. In an interview promoting Hulu’s docuseries “The Hair Tales,” Tracee Ellis Ross ...

There was no one particular moment when it struck me; it was more of an accumulation of moments one by one that stacked onto one another over time. Each single circumstance was just that—a single ...

We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...

Our minds like to think. They like to be busy. They like to be occupied. They’re creative, cunning, and clever. They want to take up all of our attention. They will if we let them. They want to pull ...

I’ve said it many times before: December 2020 was a cataclysmic month for me. Over a year later I still find it hard to reveal all of the details of what happened. Suffice to say, I went through loss ...

In the Buddhist cosmology, Pretas, or the “Hungry Ghosts,” refers to a psychic domain in which the human mind is tormented by desires that could never, ever be satiated. In the mythology, the hungry ...

To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...