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It turns out I have a job that puts me at risk for depression. Writers, artists and other creatives are on a list of the top ten jobs linked to depression posted on Health.com in 2012. Understandably, caregivers, health-care workers and teachers are in the top ten, but writers? The…

Right around the time I learned how to meditate, I read a haiku from the sixth century AD: He creeps along the log in fear and trembling, He does not know that the bridge is flowing and the water is not. For some reason, this haiku rang bells for me.…

Sometimes women love to spend time with women, men with men, just as sometimes children with children, teenagers with teenagers. It’s natural. Can we use that time of getting together with other women to enhance our spiritual lives and to improve the world on a deeper level? Today women comprise…

Last year “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” was one of the most popular articles on The Atlantic’s website (www.theatlantic.com)—and nearly a year later it’s still getting a lot of attention. Clearly, it hit a nerve with thousands of women who are finding themselves stretched thin while juggling career,…

I’ll never forget Maggie, one of the first women I taught to practice the Transcendental Meditation technique. As a young TM teacher in the 1970s, I was feeling less stressed and happier with daily meditation, yet the dramatic improvements in other people sometimes startled me. Maggie tearfully told me in…

This article was featured on the Huffington Post’s Less Stress, More Living page. Stuck inside during a rainy weekend in the mountains of North Carolina, I was happy to discover Huffington Post’s webcast entitled, “The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money and Power.”

Heart disease used to be considered a men’s ailment. With women balancing more pressures at work and at home, cardiovascular disease now affects more women than men, and is responsible for 40 percent of all deaths in American women. Clearly, preventing and lowering heart disease is something every woman needs…

A writer friend recently asked me if the TM technique would still the mental chatter that never shuts off in her brain. I said “yes,” because quieting the mind is a direct result of transcending. And it’s definitely been my own experience. Most self-help books will advise you to control…

I recently had an interesting talk with my sister-in-law’s niece at a family dinner. She had just come back from six months of traveling in Europe, Africa, and Asia. I asked her what she had learned most from her trip. Her answer took me by surprise—she said what she learned…

As Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg continues to inspire spirited debate in the media over her book Lean In, which she describes as a “sort of feminist manifesto,” I can’t help but think of an early feminist meeting I attended in the 70s at Illinois State University. Young women were speaking…