Spirituality, Therapy, and the Good Life

On December 29th from 7:00 to 9:00 I’ll be offering a free class at SagePlace entitled, ““What Happy People Know:The Art and Science of Happiness.” The class will explore lessons taken from both ancient wisdom and modern science about what the happiest people know, do and believe and how we too can achieve the greatest [...]

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Worried about the earth and the economy? Spend five minutes viewing the above video produced by The Center for a New American Dream for some excellent information and inspiration based on Juliet Schor’s excellent book, “Plentitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.” You can also read her blog , view her lecture , and read [...]

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The above is a presentation by Andrew Solomon, author of “The Noon Day Demon” at Beth Isreal Hospital talking about his struggle with major depression. Solomon gave the following advice to those struggling with depression during an interview with PBS. “First piece of advice: Deal with it early. Don’t wait until it escalates out of [...]

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As a grandmother, I’m always looking for things to do, places to go, ways to teach, and resources to enhance Skylar’s and Willow’s well-being. Here are two that I want to share with you today (every now and then I’ll add more.) The first is Raising Happiness a terrific website that provides a great deal [...]

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Few words have moved me more than the following written by poet and author Ellen Bass, “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, [...]

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Krista Tippett interviewed neuroscientist Richard Davidson in an episode entitled, “Investigating Healthy Minds” on one of my favorite public broadcasting programs, Being On the program Davidson spoke with Tippett about how discoveries in neuroscience are demonstrating how we can change our brains in ways that can not only improve the quality of our experiences, but [...]

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As we all know, Steve Jobs resigned on Wednesday as chief executive officer from Apple. Today I received an email from Learn Out Loud with a link to a commencement speech Steve, who never graduated from college, delivered at Stamford University. It’s wise. It’s short. It’s honest. It’s wonderful.

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I listened to Matthew Fox on a Sounds True podcast this evening. Fox shared, “I really think our species is in a great dark night of the soul at this time, because we’re all unsure about what the future holds, with so many decisions ahead of us and so many institutions not working, from government [...]

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