For more than two decades, Katrina McGhee has worked to improve the lives of women. As a former executive for two of the world’s largest non-profit organizations, the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen
When I was but a young bipolar blogger, I met a woman named Christina. Actually, I met a woman named ‘Bipolar Hot Mess.’ She was cool and fun and passionate and she made me feel like I could do anything. I read her blogs and she gave me some...
We'll never feel good enough if we don't trust in our own worth. Self-improvement is a beautiful thing, until it becomes an addiction.
As much as we wish we were super-humans with the power to export the trauma out of our children's lives, we're not. How do we love them through the darkness of their past, but also help them grow?
In her new book, "The Sum of Us" author Heather McGhee chronicles the damage done by white supremacy -- most severely for Black people but also for whites.
Ten years after the trauma of the hurricane, a study finds that some students are having unexpected success.
The goal of this life isn’t to find our way out of pain. It’s not to have a tidy house and a tidy life. And it’s sure as hell not to experience total highs all of the time. And if that is your...
Go outside. Take a small trip. Don’t interact with that one guy.
Loving yourself is not about a philosophy of living, it’s about picking your practice and applying it every day.
Set aside your limited expectations and fall in line with God's creative plan to make a beautiful mess of your life and your plans. Like a master artist, He's ready to take the colors of your current life and craft them into a beauty that is beyond your comprehension.
I’ve been thinking lately about all the turmoil in the world, the turmoil that has many people I know living on the edge of their nerves at all hours of the day and night.
As we lead up to the High Holidays, there is a strong emphasis on developing and strengthening our relationship with G-d. The aspect of our relationship that we are working on is Loving G-d. How can we Love G-d in a personal, real way? How can we feel a loving connection to G-d if we have feelings of pain or even anger directed towards Him? What does a loving man/G-d relationship look like?
Much like human children learn... mom is always watching.
As a parent, you always have to be aware of what lessons your child is learning from the world around him or her. I know that I won’t be able to protect my 9-year-old James from every bad thing out there, but on a recent trip to the grocery store, I was utterly appalled by a disturbing trend: Our country has become desensitized to violence in hot-sauce names, and it’s a big problem.
Before the tragedy, she used to question how a parent could ever forget their child.
FOMO, constant comparisons, misinformation—there are so many ways "social" interaction can screw with your head.
Loving someone with anxiety isn't always the easiest thing.
As many as one in three people over the age of 60 is affected by urinary incontinence (UI), a condition that can leave psychological scars.
My old ways of avoiding and distracting myself from the pain never worked. I had to go through it to go beyond it. When I embraced my feelings, I healed.