Get ideas for how to use random acts of kindness to boost your well-being. — By Tchiki Davis Have you ever done something nice for someone else “just because”? It wasn’t to repay them or because you had to — it was simply because you wanted to. Well, then, you’ve done a random act of kindness! …

“White Christian Nationalism is steeped in myths of national innocence and this idea that the founding of the United States was a God-anointed beginning,” Moslener said. — By Warren Blumenfeld One year following Florida’s draconian so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, Iowa passed, and Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 496 in May of this year. The law went into effect on July 1. It bans lessons and discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades…

No matter how well we were parented, cared for, and protected, every one of us grows into an adult carrying emotional wounds that formed negative beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. — By Corinne Farago No matter how well we were parented, cared for, and protected, every one of us grows into an adult carrying emotional wounds that formed negative beliefs about ourselves and the world around us.

Exposing how the loops of impulses present the pathophysiology of suicide could be a way to prevent its grip. — By David Stephen There is a recent report on suicide by the CDC, Suicide Deaths in the United States Overall and By Select Demographic Characteristics, 2021–2022, where “provisional deaths in 2022 was 49,449, up from 48,183 final deaths in 2021.” Why do suicidal thoughts take root? What situations make them…

5 ways men can be allies to women’s safety. — By Laura Frombach and Joy Farrow We need help. Your help. Yes, you. Men may be reluctant to help women feel safe because they’re not quite sure how to go about it. They also may not recognize when women are feeling unsafe. …

Why might you want to learn how to give and receive emotional support? — By Tchiki Davis Zamfira Parincu Emotional support is an intentional verbal and nonverbal way to show care and affection for another. By providing emotional support to another person, you offer them reassurance, acceptance, encouragement, and caring, making them feel valued and important (Burleson, 2003). When you directly express affection and…

If we’re honest, most adults know we are leaving a world for our children and grandchildren that is much less wonderful than the world we grew up in. — By Jed Diamond Ph.D If we’re honest, most adults know we are leaving a world for our children and grandchildren that is much less wonderful than the world we grew up in. Turning 80 this year, I think about what wisdom I might offer them. I am a rational scientist…

I have never forgotten one essential point my educational psychology professor related to my class back at San José State University when I was working toward my Secondary Education Teacher’s Certification in 1970. — By Warren Blumenfeld “When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you …when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as…

The child of a narcissist often recognizes that awful truth, that he has become frighteningly like his or her parent. — By Eric Maisel Narcissists regularly produce mirror images of themselves. Whether that’s a matter of nature, nurture or some combination of the two, who can say? But the child of a narcissist often recognizes that awful truth, that he has become frighteningly like his or her parent. Here is Abraham’s…