I’m still learning. After nearly 50 revolutions of the sun, 30 of which have been spent squeezing as much fitness and adventure out of my body as possible, I’m still learning and relearning lessons that can make me a better athlete and human. Many of the lessons I’ve been taught have come through mistakes. Bad […]
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The concept of spiritual wellness is a relatively new one for me. I’d certainly heard of “wellness” many times before and always thought that just included physical, mental, and emotional wellness. But I never even considered that wellness could also include the spiritual side of us, because quite frankly, what is spiritual wellness and how
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Are any of us really good at relationships? I think it is easier for some people to find a partner and even to be in a relationship, but “easier” is terribly relative. Even the best is still fumbling in the dark when it comes to navigating the needs and desires and reciprocal fumblings of another
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Welcome to How They Did It: the podcast that gets you the real story behind the success. Host Darbi Worley interviews extraordinary people about this thing called life and how to do it better. This episode, Darbi discusses love, body image and politics with Jamal Smith (HRC for America, Equinox). Connect with Jamal on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Next episode:
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Back in the late 1970s, Jon Kabat-Zinn realized the potential value the 2,500 Buddhist meditation and awareness technique called sati—commonly translated into English as “mindfulness”—would have in therapeutic settings if it was stripped of its spiritual trappings and presented as a course in stress reduction. And so secular mindfulness was born, the wholsesale transformation of
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen 2000, Penguin Books The Idea The hardest conversations are typically the most important ones (and the easiest to screw up). Thankfully, three smart souls from the Harvard Negotiation project have hooked us up with this gem, a book that
Depression is a liar. That’s one of the first lessons I learned with my very first therapist. It’s still, by its very nature, the hardest to remember. But keeping depression in check by recognizing it for the lying liar it is can sometimes be the difference between sickness and health. The worst lie depression can
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