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The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
Of all the great myths of contemporary life, one of the most toxic is positivity. It says: there are negative and positive emotions, and only the positive ones are worth feeling, having, expressing. Heres why its really, really bad for us. If You Dont Feel Your Pain, It...
Woman Lets Public Cut Her Hair for Powerful Message
Beauty isn't dependent on the external appearance. In this daring street experiment, Jae West co-founder of The Liberators International dives into vulnerability in Times Square, New York City to highlight this powerful message.
Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem
Researcher Kristin Neff reveals the benefits of going easy on yourself: less anxiety, less conflict, and more peace of mind.
5 Lies About Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell You
Picture this: you hurt yourself, and yougo to the doctor to talk about knee surgery.What would you think if your doctor was required by law to tell you that the operation would increase your chance of bone cancer? Or that repairing your torn ligament would increase your...
Living With Chronic Illness: Your Worth Isn't Dependent on What You Do
I recently spent 4 weeks in hospital. This morning, lying in bed, in severe pain and unable to move, I had a strange feeling of missing hospital. Not the noisy and un-restful clinical environment that being in hospital provides, but the being able to press a buzzer and get...
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
In April 2012, I attempted suicide whilst living in San Francisco. It was - obviously - an incredibly intense time, but in many ways the time that followed the attempt was even more intense than the time that led to it. The road I walked after my attempt was different to one...
Blame - an Inquiry Into Why We Separate
Allow me to share a few personal anecdotes My dear aunt recently passed awayfrom bone cancer at just 60. To make sense of her passing, I went through a period of blaming the doctors, her Christian Science background (which doesnt believe in medicine), my aunt for not...
We Need To Talk About How Mental Health is Political
Shon Faye looks at the politics of mental illness. The biases of how it's defined, who gets diagnosed and how people affected can resist discrimination and cuts to vital services.
Being Crazy in a Sick Society Is Actually Healthy
Tobe normal is to be sick
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
Finding and connecting with your soul tribe is more important than evernot just for connection but also to thrive in our modern society
People With Alzheimer's Tell Us Memories They Never Want to Forget
We asked people diagnosed with Alzheimer's to tell us memories they never want to forget.
The First Noble Misunderstanding
Theres a lot of misunderstanding about meditation. In fact, says Karen Maezen Miller, thats pretty much all that meditation is the process of seeing how much youve misunderstood meditation and everything else.
Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and...
Best Mentor Ever Tells Boy 'It's OK to Cry' in Moving Viral Video
A man is offering kids a shoulder to cry on.
What to Do When the Going Gets Rough
Four ways to make it through trying times with an open heart
13 Graphs Perfectly Demonstrate What Depression Feels Like
Sometimes, words just arent enough, but there are other ways to get ideas across. These images will help you understand what depression feels like.
Depression-Busting Exercise Tips for People Too Depressed to Exercise
If youve struggled with depression at any point in your life, youve probably heard some well-meaning soul say just try to get some exercise, its good for your mood! Annoyingly, theyre right; I dont think that exercise can single-handedly cure depression or treat its symptoms...
How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Anxiety, Addiction and Depression
Psychedelic drugs could be the key to making you happier and healthier. So why won't we research them?
Why Being Lonely Is Crucial for Survival
We all know it sucks to be lonely, but is it actually essential for our survival? Here's more on why loneliness might be a good thing.
In Our Nature: A Beautiful Spoken Word Tribute to the Wonder of The World
A spoken word film about enjoying nature and spending more time outdoors. Our environment and our climate is what keep us alive. If we look after our planet, it will look after us in return. Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk.
Swine
Resistance has arrived - the world's most destructive industry has a secret it doesn't want you to know about, Jack Tomlins goes undercover to reveal the truth. Will he survive?
The Four Mantras of True Presence
These simple mantras can help us overcome suffering
Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal
Physician Dr. Gabor Mate began his interview by addressing the 'myth of normal' that divides us into the normal and the abnormal with pathological traits. Dr. Mate mentions that he doesn't see a division, but a continuum where mental distress, of some degree, is present in...
Watch: How Ayahuasca Can Break Addiction's Grip on the Brain
In this video, Dr. Gabor Mat explains how addiction imprints itself on the brain and how ayahuasca can help release people from their destructive habits. "Ayahuasca shows you very clearly the psychological baggage that you've carried all your life," Mat says. "You no longer...
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds (takethe CIAs secret attempts at LSD...
7 Traits of People Who Are Great at Relationships
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
One of the most important skills we can teach our kids is empathy. Empathy is the ability to see and value what another person is feeling or experiencing. When we see someone in pain and feel that response in our own gut, thats empathy. When we see someone crying tears of joy...
Turning the Problem Around: Mental Health in a Sick Society
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.Anne Louise Germaine de Stal-Holstein The rise of people who are diagnosed with mental illnesses, especially children, has been unprecedented. ADHD, ADD, bipolar, depressionare...
15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
Expert tips to manage your frustration and get past toxic thinking.
6 Better Ways to Deal With Conflicts in Your Relationship
Intimate relationships bring up intense feelings. Conflict with a partner can feel destabilizing, and make it difficult to be articulate and openly expressive. Many people try to avoid conflict through a variety of maneuverspretending to always agree, being aggressively...
Monsanto, America's Monster
Last month, the University of San Francisco made an alarming discovery, that 93% of Americans tested had traces of a chemical called glyphosate in their urine. Last year, the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate a possible carcinogen.
Five Signs You've Found an Evolved Man, and Why You Should Be Scared Sh**Less
For all the women looking for an evolved man and all the men trying to live up to the standard.
My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms
In May 2013, my whole world shifted. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam and I beganto feel the call to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca.
When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves
Growing up in southern England and Wales, we always lived close to the woods, streams, and hills of the nearby countryside. The towns were built to be dense and tight, so it was relatively easy to walk out of the buildings and away from traffic into a land of kingfishers...
It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence
Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence.
Money and the Divine Masculine
I recently attended a ceremony at the Tamera village in Portugal in which the officiant invoked the healing of money. Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his...
Greed 101: Hedge Funds Bringing Poverty and Suffering to Places Like Puerto Rico
They're called "vulture funds" and they make a killing off of places like Puerto Rico - sometimes literally.
Our Bodies Don't Need Meat. So Why Can't We Give It Up?
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that all grain must go to people rather than animals. Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband. What would happen then?
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Dear Mothers, Im writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
The Compassion Project - "The Highest Form of Love"
Here's a sneak peak of the documentary, "The Compassion Project." Dr. Will Tuttle & Victoria Moran discuss compassion as the highest form of love.
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
Heres how I work: Im extremely friendly and respectful to those who obey the laws of common decency when interacting with others.
Things We Aren't Allowed to Talk About
Making it okay to say youre not doing so well
Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children
1. We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready.
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.
Why Manning up Is the Worst Thing to Do
Can we cure the toxicity of male trauma and the resulting illnesses it creates?
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
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economys advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
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...
Zika and the Mentality of Control
The ruling institutions of this world are quite comfortable with a virus.
"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.
A Different Way to Die: the Story of a Natural Burial
Tristan knew the end was near when his dad turned yellow.
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.
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
The issue at the core of womens empowerment is the mother wound
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. Heres what could happen if we were all trained to deal with depression and anxiety.
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.
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 egos voice, let go of...
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...
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. Theyre able to play the empathy game, but without the feelings involved. Its like an empty shell. The core of...
Rewilding Human Nature
Lucy Purdy explores how the concept of rewilding could be applied not just to the natural world, but to ourselves
What a Strange Way of Life
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...