Quarter-Life Crisis to Breakthrough

I have a big fear: not living up to my potential. Of sitting on my deathbed questioning if I made my one shot at life count. The fear motivated me ...

Quarter-Life Crisis to Breakthrough

The Rise of Purpose Anxiety

“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen There’s a crack in many of our lives today. It’s a feeling of purpose anxiety ...

The Rise of Purpose Anxiety

All the Names You’ve Taught the World to Call You

Haircuts, the True Self, and the Call to Adventure Now’s the time to cheaton all the namesyou’ve taught the world to call you.James Pearson, from The Wilderness That Bears Your ...

All the Names You’ve Taught the World to Call You

Modern Empty Nesting: Launching Your Kids in a Changing World

For decades, “empty nesting” has been shorthand for a moment of closure — the kids are grown, independent, and out in the world. But today’s reality is far more complex. ...

Modern Empty Nesting: Launching Your Kids in a Changing World

Loneliness

According to the US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, there’s a loneliness epidemic. The data for loneliness for men, for youth, and for aging people is abundant and being revised, replayed, ...

Loneliness

Midlife as Mythic Quest: Finding the Meaning in Your Life’s Journey

“The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, ...

Midlife as Mythic Quest: Finding the Meaning in Your Life’s Journey

The Exiled Heir: Reclaiming Your Hidden Power at Midlife

About all those babies in baskets floating down rivers... Midlife has a way of making you feel like something is missing. A quiet dissatisfaction creeps in. A restlessness. Sometimes you ...

The Exiled Heir: Reclaiming Your Hidden Power at Midlife

Balance

When I was a young babe, my family moved to Spain. I attended pre-school in the picturesque town of Santiago de Compostela where I wore one shoe that had an ...

Balance

The Karuna Project: Grief, Growth & Compassion

I’ve been journaling since I was eleven years old, ever since I received my first diary. That small, private space between its covers became my sanctuary – a place where I ...

The Karuna Project: Grief, Growth & Compassion

How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

With so much driving us apart, music offers opportunities for solace and bridge-building.Intergenerational duets are having a moment.Paul Simon, 83, and Sabrina Carpenter, 58 years younger, cold-opened Saturday Night Live’s 50th ...

How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences