by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 9, 2018 |
TED Talk: How Our Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 8, 2018 |
Beyond Closure Nancy Berns is a sociologist at Drake University. She looks at the space between grief and closure and has found that not only is closure a fabricated concept, it is doing us more harm than...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 8, 2018 |
TED Talk: All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 5, 2018 |
TED Talk: How My Son’s Short Life Made a Lasting Difference After Sarah Gray’s unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she decided to turn her family’s tragedy into an extraordinary gift and donate his organs to...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 5, 2018 |
TED Talk: How to Fix a Broken Heart At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will have our heart broken. Imagine how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotional pain. Psychologist Guy Winch reveals how recovering from...