Giulio Fornasar/Getty Images “It’s certainly toxic to express our anger without thought, acting out with cruelty, meanness, or pettiness. But it’s also toxic to swallow that anger down.” Anger is a hot emotion. It’s intense, and it makes us want to take action, to lash out, to...
Read More↓ We can’t second-guess every choice we make. So how do we know what it means for something to feel right? ↓ One of the questions that have come up for me often in my life is what it means to trust myself. How do I know that the...
Read More“Becoming clear on what is our problem and what is someone else’s is revolutionary.” Over the last couple of years, I’ve been working with a wonderful, life-changing phrase: not my problem. It might sound harsh, cruel, or maybe like a cool breeze on a hot day, but,...
Read MoreIs intuition a useful tool or will it lead you astray? Julie Peters weighs the answers. Trust your gut. This advice gets thrown around a lot—that we should be able to listen to a little voice inside that tells us that something isn’t right, or we need...
Read More“The problem isn’t the depth of sadness or anger that we feel. The problem is our resistance to them.” Stress, anxiety, depression, self-sabotage, breakups, chronic pain—half the trouble we get into in our lives comes from struggling to simply feel our feelings. Our culture is a...
Read MoreA comforting prayer to use when releasing a pet from this life. Have you ever had to put your dog to sleep? (I hate that euphemism but asking if you ever had to kill your dog seems too harsh.) I have. Several times. And I will have...
Read MoreWeddings and funerals: Rabbi Rami has an honest conversation about traditions and how we honor them. Ecclesiastes writes it is better to attend a house of mourning than a house of feasting. There at least two reasons for this. First, the food is better. Second, the...
Read More“If we don’t know what we want to be when we grow up, is there something fundamentally wrong with us?” Following our joy, chasing our bliss, finding our dharma: these are good things, right? We want to be like the heroic people who gave up the...
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