Adopting my son overseas has taught me more about maturity than any textbook or training ever could. After graduate school, I worked in an international adoption agency, and that’s where I first met him—in an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia. He had been overlooked by Caucasian couples because...
I remember one Christmas when the tree lights glowed softly in the corner, the scent of pine filling the room, and my son curled up on the couch with wide eyes fixed on the TV. He was obsessed with Star Wars. We had already watched the movies countless times, but that night—with stockings ...
Carl Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. He is best known for concepts like the collective unconscious, archetypes, and individuation—the lifelong process of becoming your true self. Jung believed that healing comes not only from treating...
Long before gratitude became a buzzword in psychology or a spiritual mantra, it was woven into cultural rituals. The first widely recognized “Thanksgiving” in North America took place in 1621, when the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast. For more than two c...
