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Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
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On Feeling Manic
Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run obsessively and at high speed away from something within us that asks for our attention and yet feels intolerably raw and overwhelming.
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Might I Be Feeling Lonely Rather Than Worried?
We might ask a question of our mood that sounds deliberately and provocatively strange: Might I principally, at heart, be lonely rather than worried?
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The Ecstatic Joy We Deny Ourselves
What if we didn’t always have to be as sad and as anxious as we usually are? What if we surrendered to loving and to being loved?
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Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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Work
How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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Self-Knowledge
How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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Self-Knowledge
When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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Self-Knowledge
What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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