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Self-loathing requires a “self” to be loathed. So who is doing the loathing, and who is being loathed? Sharon Salzberg, a great meditation teacher in the west, once asked the Dalai Lama what his thoughts were on self-hatred. He didn’t understand the question. His...

You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. -The Minimalists There may come a point in your personal journey where the people around you become too toxic. Perhaps your life is headed in a different direction than theirs, or their...

Sometimes we’re just in survival mode. Moments of intense pain, trauma, chaos. It’s just survival mode. There’s not going to be peace; we’re just trying to get through it. What we may be able to do in these moments is minimize the suffering. Working with the breath is...

You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You do not need to be fixed. You are, and always have been, whole. It's mostly fair to assume that when you were in your mother's womb, there were no ideas of what was right with you or wrong with you. You weren't...

There is no way to know what the best decision is. All you can do is make the best decision in this moment based on the understanding, evidence and intuition you have. To certain people, you’ll be wrong. And to others, you’ll be right. And whatever happens based on...

Pain is a biopsychosocial phenomena. New research by Lorimer Moser suggests that physical pain is a biopsychosocial phenomena. If you walk through the woods and feel a pinch on your foot, when you look down to see that it’s a twig, the pain will often subside....