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A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
Here’s how I work: I’m extremely friendly and respectful to those who obey the laws of common decency when interacting with others.
Crystal Jackson
Things We Aren't Allowed to Talk About
Things We Aren't Allowed to Talk About
Making it okay to say you’re not doing so well
Jessica May Hayes
Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children
Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children
1. We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready.
Jan Hunt
3 Factors That Determine Your Self-Esteem
3 Factors That Determine Your Self-Esteem
To have sound levels of self-esteem is one of the gateways to happiness. But achieving this has very little to do with the progress of our careers.
5 min
Why Manning up Is the Worst Thing to Do
Why Manning up Is the Worst Thing to Do
Can we cure male trauma and the resulting illnesses it creates?
Mark Greene
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy
Dahr Jamail
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson
Befriending Hopelessness
Befriending Hopelessness
The impact was sudden. An SUV carrying several passengers, now hurtled like a Tonka Toy in a spinning arc two stories high. Six thousand pounds of metal flew through the air, flinging wreckage and bodies across the lane opposite me. My mind tried to make sense of what was...
Kelly Wendorf
Zika and the Mentality of Control
Zika and the Mentality of Control
The ruling institutions of this world are quite comfortable with a virus.
Charles Eisenstein
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame
A five-month-old baby is lying in his mother's arms. He is close to sleep, then wakes and begins to cry. His mother tells him that he should stop being a naughty boy, and that she will be cross with him if he doesn't sleep.
Robin Grille and Beth Macgregor
A Different Way to Die: the Story of a Natural Burial
A Different Way to Die: the Story of a Natural Burial
Tristan knew the end was near when his dad turned yellow.
Katie Herzog
5 Great Ways to Expand Your World When Traveling
5 Great Ways to Expand Your World When Traveling
Take them as inspiration, accept them as challenges or follow them as rules. Just remember that the world is open to those with an open mind.
Momondo
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
The issue at the core of women’s empowerment is the mother wound
Bethany Webster
What If Mental Health First Aid Were as Widespread as CPR?
What If Mental Health First Aid Were as Widespread as CPR?
One in every four Americans experiences mental illness, and lack of police understanding can lead to tragedy. Here’s what could happen if we were all trained to deal with depression and anxiety.
Jasleena Grewal
Why Opioids Are Killing so Many Americans
Why Opioids Are Killing so Many Americans
Opioid addiction has killed a quarter of a million American in the past 15 years. And it often begins with a legal prescription from a doctor.
3 min
Zen and the Art of Living Deeply
Zen and the Art of Living Deeply
Cultivating a Beginner's Mind With traditional arts in Asia much emphasis is put on long-term practice and effort, so as to reach continuously higher levels of skill development. There is a deeper character training happening as well, to reduce the ego’s voice, let go of...
Christopher Chase
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it seems that the lab-made drugs we have become so dependent...
Sophia Daoudi
Beyond the Zero-Empathy Matrix
Beyond the Zero-Empathy Matrix
To be, or not to be: that is the question.” —Hamlet “Psychopaths are capable of taking the perspective of somebody else, but only to take better advantage of you. They’re able to play the empathy game, but without the feelings involved. It’s like an empty shell. The core of...
John Stanley & David Loy
Rewilding Human Nature
Rewilding Human Nature
Lucy Purdy explores how the concept of ‘rewilding’ could be applied not just to the natural world, but to ourselves
Lucy Purdy
What a Strange Way of Life
What a Strange Way of Life (trailer)
This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its own coins, the Eco; and finally, the self-sustaining community Tamera also in Portugal. The...
2 min
Why I Live the Life of a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
Why I Live the Life of a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
A friend recently said to me, “Kyer, if I were in your financial situation, I’d be freaking out.”
Kyer Wiltshire
10 Reasons to Embrace Wildness
10 Reasons to Embrace Wildness
Henry David Thoreau once wrote the words, "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Though Thoreau lived in his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond many years ago, those words hold a deep truth. Wildness can mean so many different things to so many different people, but...
We Are Wildness
What It Was Like For These Men To Get Photoshopped With "Ideal" Male Bodies
What It Was Like For These Men To Get Photoshopped With "Ideal" Male Bodies
The Try Guys recreate famous photos of male celebrities and are photoshopped with their ideal body types.
11 min
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde
Used and Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats
Used and Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats
On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: “Support the troops.”
31 min
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
Here Are 4 Bad Messages About Masculinity We Should Stop Telling Young Boys
Here Are 4 Bad Messages About Masculinity We Should Stop Telling Young Boys
Masculinity is having a moment — but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
Are Our Smartphones Afflicting Us All With Symptoms of ADHD?
Are Our Smartphones Afflicting Us All With Symptoms of ADHD?
When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.
Kostadin Kushlev
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected? Instead, Tulley believes the most effective way to keep children safe is to give them a little...
6 min
Why the Ocean Calls to Us, According to Science
Why the Ocean Calls to Us, According to Science
5 ways water can heal the mind and body and help you tap into your most calm and creative state of being
Carolyn Gregoire
What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"
What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"
What does "a good day" mean to you?
3 min
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated film takes us into the world of animal agriculture to expose how the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
4 min
Caitlin Moran's Ode to The NHS
Caitlin Moran's Ode to The NHS
An NHS waiting room. It waits for all of us, even as some of us - patients, carers, loved ones - wait IN it. A dark cluster of trouble on an X-ray may have brought you here. Too few drops of serotonin; too many of cortisol. But now, this building, with all its people and...
6 min
Cold at Home
Cold at Home
Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
9 min
Groundbreaking Study Shows Your Brain (Though Perhaps Not Your Ego) on LSD
Groundbreaking Study Shows Your Brain (Though Perhaps Not Your Ego) on LSD
"We are finally unveiling the brain mechanisms underlying the potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself."
Jon Queally
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein
Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences
Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences
Love: Development of self first priority. Toxic love: Obsession with relationship.
Light Shifter
Overcoming Depression Fast - How to Smile Again...You Are Worthy
Overcoming Depression Fast - How to Smile Again...You Are Worthy
"This too shall pass" "The body is the subconscious mind."
23 min
The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine
The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine
There is an ancient South American prophecy called the Eagle and the Condor.
Jocelyn Mercado
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
22 min
Celebrities Speak Out on Fame & Materialism
Celebrities Speak Out on Fame & Materialism
Everyone needs to hear this. The truth about fame from the people who went on that ride and saw where it leads.
6 min
"Women Can't Play Music"
"Women Can't Play Music"
Self-esteem holds us back and undermines our happiness; but it can be overcome
Joanne Stephens
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees w
Tim Hjersted
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
A powerful new campaign wants advertisers to know that many consumers are fed up with how women are portrayed. Women Not Objects, a project dedicated to calling out the objectification of women in commercials, magazine spreads and other forms of advertising, has released a...
3 min
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Flowers In the Rain Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
Jeannine Parvati Baker
Kind is the New Cool
Kind is the New Cool
When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...
Charles Eisenstein
Woman Confronts Former Spy Who Tricked Her Into a Relationship
Woman Confronts Former Spy Who Tricked Her Into a Relationship
The moment Helen Steel confronts the former police spy who deceived her, before disappearing without a trace, is caught on camera at Sydney airport. The British social justice campaigner had flown from London to Australia to confront John Dines, finally seeing him...
3 min
How Male Circumcision Harms Women
How Male Circumcision Harms Women
Learn about the hidden negative psychological and sexual effects of circumcision and how these effects harm women in relationships with men. This article is based on research reports in the medical and psychological literature.
Ronald Goldman
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation.
Sara Burrows
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
Why People's Opinions of You Aren't Real
Why People's Opinions of You Aren't Real
Kyle Cease explains why you should never lose your inner child.
4 min
The Hidden Antidote for Depression
The Hidden Antidote for Depression
Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
What It Means To Communicate
What It Means To Communicate
Recently, we were doing some work with a couple who were struggling in their relationship. They had been together for twelve years and had two children. It seemed that they fought about everything – about raising their children, about sex, about finances, and about where and...
Krishnananda and Amana
Nobody Is Born a Terrorist
Nobody Is Born a Terrorist
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
Chris Agnos
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where you felt small and insignificant? Or recall generally feeling overwhelmed? For me, it has...
Krishnananda
Fantasies, Sex & Betrayal: Exploring Love's Shadow
Fantasies, Sex & Betrayal: Exploring Love's Shadow
We get an energy high in our initial time with someone but the going can get rough when we settle into life together. Most of us are deeply wounded with shame, insecurities and fears, full of mistrust but at the same time desperately needy for love. We bring this woundedness...
Krishnanada Trobe
Your Friend Is Dying and You're Reading Poetry?
Your Friend Is Dying and You're Reading Poetry?
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation.
5 min
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