How We Talk About Mental Health Matters

The practice of seeking support when we’re distressed is typically associated with emotional well-being. It makes sense: Most of us believe that having somebody—a...

How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions

What makes you tick? This is the question that drew me to psychiatry in the first place. What interested me most was not what people...

Why Learning From Failure Is the Key to Success

Without any experience in retail and very little cash, Sara Blakely founded Spanx when she was 29 years old. How did she do it?...

An Antidote for the End-of-Summer Blues

Too soon? It may only be August but pumpkin spice season is officially upon us. Brands are already rolling out their fall-inspired offerings and Christmas...

Are We Afraid of the Wrong Things?

After all these years, the movie Jaws still haunts me. I love to swim in the ocean but lurking in the back of my...

Get a Hobby. Seriously…

How do you spend your free time? Before you say, “Free time? I don’t have any free time” consider the following. According to the most...