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During the pandemic, teachers have had challenges that their academic training couldn’t have anticipated. Unlike teaching in person, with distance learning teachers have had to work harder to connect with students—to ascertain if they had enough food, if they were frightened, if they understood the lesson, if they were even…

Most children are raised to be thoughtful adults who will try, in every circumstance, to “do the right thing.” “Just do the right thing!” we tell ourselves when we face a challenging moral or social dilemma. Easy to say… but not always easy to do.  How can we know what’s…

Barbara is a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in California who received her nursing degree at Russell Sage College and her WOCN Specialty training at Emory University. She has worked at Scripps Memorial Hospital for 35 years and took the Transcendental Meditation course…

Parents know that eye-rolling and door slamming are coming when their daughter is approaching her teen years. Sometimes it doesn’t end up being so bad. Sometimes it’s worse than you could have imagined. Who is this creature that has the face of the adorable child you raised and nurtured but…

Doctors throughout the world know that the process of healing occurs spontaneously from within the human body when our lifestyle choices support the body’s own natural healing mechanisms.  We all know from our experience that the body has powerful intelligence within it. We see examples of this every moment in…

My friend and her husband were a happy, productive, generous and successful couple. Then, almost out of the blue, he was diagnosed with a serious illness and she took care of him through the rest of his life. A few days ago, about one year after her husband passed away,…

Do you feel anxious and have no reason to be? It may be that your genes are responsible. Two years ago, a study showed the likelihood of anxiety being an inheritable disorder.  A year later, a study on genetics and anxiety disorders published in Molecular Psychiatry in November of 2019…

It always seems a bit funny when someone says they “believe” that the TM technique works. It definitely does “work,” but it’s far from a matter of belief— its benefits have been shown over and over again by peer-reviewed research studies published in highly reputable domestic and international scientific journals.…

Multimedia artist YiZhou was born in China, raised in Rome, studied in Paris and London, and now lives in Los Angeles. An energetic and prolifically creative talent with degrees in political science and economics, YiZhou is an artist whose short films have been shown at the Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale,…

Right now there is a big increase in the numbers of American women who are becoming proactive about global issues, including issues that marginalize distinct populations. One of these populations has historically been that of women and girls. The Brookings Institution, based in Washington D.C., is a nonprofit public policy…