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By identifying our triggers, implementing coping strategies, and practicing self-care, we can navigate our triggers with grace and resilienc

Five Reflective Practices for Developing Self-Awareness and Recognizing What We Cannot See Alone How are you doing right now? Not the answer you give automatically. Not the version shaped for the person asking. How are you, beneath the activity of your day? Many of us move quickly among work, family, friendship, caregiving, and responsibility. We may remain highly capable while losing contact with what we feel, need, fear, or long for. Self-reflection creates an opportunity t

The Nine Pillars of Holistic Health Editorial Note: This article was originally published as The Seven Pillars of Health. It has been substantially revised to reflect the expanded Nine Pillars framework I now use, and a more personal, integrated understanding of wellness. We are often taught to approach health as something we should achieve. Eat correctly. Exercise consistently. Sleep eight hours. Manage stress. Stay positive. Each recommendation may contain something useful.

Understanding the Hidden Patterns, Meanings, Memories, and Expectations That Influence Us Editorial Note: This article has been substantially expanded to make one of psychoanalysis’s most important ideas more accessible,and to show how the unconscious appears not only in therapy, but throughout ordinary life. Why do we repeatedly choose relationships that leave us feeling unseen? Why can a seemingly minor interaction produce an unexpectedly powerful reaction? Why do we procra