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The ongoing dialogue I have with my own perspective and emotions is the biggest job I’ve ever undertaken. Exploring this internal give-and-take forces me to grow in surprising ways.
After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living with her parents, heartbroken and lost, when she became convinced that her skin had turned green.
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Do you believe that what you see influences how you feel? Actually, the opposite is true: What you feel—your “affect”—influences what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology.
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going.
As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy.
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.
Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...
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People often write me asking what they should do with their lives. They lack a sense of purpose. They have this sense that they should “follow their passion” but they don’t really know what it means. Plus half the world is telling them that following a passion is stupid or misinformed.
Why? Because your passion isn’t “missing,” and it’s not waiting to be “found.” And if you’re living your life thinking it’s some treasure that you just have to find, it’ll make you feel lost and confused and overwhelmed. You’ll always feel stuck or like something is missing.