“OMG, Roopa! If Donald Trump wins the presidency, I will move. I’ll move to Canada or the UK or Australia. Yes. I’ll move to Australia. It’s far, far away from the U.S.!” That was a bleeding-heart ...

“Boys will be boys,” I say out loud as I sit with my girlfriends, enjoying a few cocktails on a Saturday night. Laughter is the main goal for these evenings. But often, we find ourselves dramatically ...

In the Buddhist cosmology, Pretas, or the “Hungry Ghosts,” refers to a psychic domain in which the human mind is tormented by desires that could never, ever be satiated. In the mythology, the hungry ...

To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...

This script is intended for a facilitator to guide participants in a Yoga Nidra meditation practice. Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a technique used to produce states of healing and ...

There are few poets whose words settle into my soul the way Mary Oliver’s do. I can’t tell you the number of scraps of paper with her words scribbled on them that I have tucked into books or shoved ...

I’ve always loved writing. I had a feeling I was kind of good at it when, back in school, my composition grades were always the highest. After I graduated college and started working, I always had a ...

We have all heard of the commonly discussed trauma responses fight or flight. Freeze is yet another reaction we experience when our brain tells us we are in danger. But fawn doesn’t get as much ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

What is a narcissistic discard? Simply put, when you’ve served your purpose for a certain person, you’re discarded by them. That’s it. You had little interest to this person as a living, breathing ...

This is not a story about a farmer, a plot of land, or regenerative agriculture. What you are about to read is a reflection of the uninhibited power of nature and ancestral wisdom captured in a human ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...