ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

This Is Your Life

By Joan Acocella — 2013

Adam Phillips, Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer, dislikes the modern notion that we should all be out there fulfilling our potential, and this is the subject of his new book, “Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Instead of feeling that we should have a better life, he says, we should just live, as gratifyingly as possible, the life we have.

Read on www.newyorker.com

FindCenter Post-Image

How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

Article
Claire Cain Miller
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Using Astrology to Release Shame

One of the hardest aspects of being human is moving past shame. Those feelings of deep regret—and the lingering insecurity and unworthiness that most likely accompany them—stick with us in a way that can be profound.

Article
Jennifer Freed
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Your Greatest Barrier to Attracting Love

We spend years running from the unlovable parts of ourselves. But if we learn to confront them and embrace them, enormous shifts can happen -- and very quickly.

Article
Kathlyn Hendricks and Gay Hendricks
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ruby Wax: Self-Acceptance Is a Lifelong Struggle

Lauren Taylor chats to comedian and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax about daily mindfulness, opening up and the importance of self-forgiveness

Article
Irish News
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

Article
Anne Lamott
2009
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

What Is Your Maternal Legacy?

My pleasure simply doesn’t come, like my mother’s, from carrying a heavy pack up Mt. Everest or sleeping on a mat in a tent in the rain. Instead, it comes from dancing, Pilates, reading, and movies—but that’s OK!

Article
Christiane Northup, MD
2011
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Forum on Psychology and Buddhism

Psychology and Buddhism: what they share, how they differ, and do we need both?

Article
Mark Epstein
2007
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address

In May of 2015, Parker J.

Article
Maria Popova
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Radical Self-Acceptance Is Possible with This 7-Step Practice

Personally, by the time I got to college, it seemed like most of the rooms of my own mind were boarded up. Over the years, I've had to work on accepting all of myself.

Article
Rick Hanson
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Tribal Imperative of Conformity

Giving up one's will and following the behavior of the majority.

Article
Claudio Naranjo
2015
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Psychology