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Like many other humans, I’ve felt depressed at times. But my periods of depression have had markedly different flavors: grieving a romantic relationship, “hitting the wall” during COVID, and ...

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Perfectionism has a dark side, says Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Boston University, in her new book "How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and ...

I don’t mean to sound bleak — we certainly have days when we’re in control and can go about our business without too much struggle. But the increasing weight of responsibility has surfaced all kinds ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

Discover how widespread self-sabotaging behavior is linked to how our brains evolved in a world full of unknown dangers and ...

Self-awareness can help, but too much fuels rumination, anxiety, and emotional fatigue. Here is how hyper self-awareness ...

Among the many instructive and edifying passages in the Book of Common Prayer is a section describing “The Consecrating of Bishops.” It is a stirring ritual, solemn, confident, uplifting. Of course, ...