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A Scholar of Religion Confronts Her Own Grief

By Mark Epstein — 2018

There is no template for grief. Religions offer frameworks, structures, rituals and prayers — but these, as Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, makes abundantly clear in her new memoir, are no substitute for the inner work that the deaths of our loved ones force on us.

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Author Harvey Deutschendorf: Emotional Intelligence; What It Is, Why It Is So Essential, And How We Can Increase It

We normally think of intelligence as cognitive intelligence, which is measured by IQ. Our emotional intelligence is looking at how our emotions effect everything that we do and think. We feel before we think.

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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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