This is an excerpt of an NPR interview with Geena Davis interviewed by Jacki Lyden. LYDEN: Maybe you’ve noticed something missing at the movies – like women. I’d like to say hooray for Hollywood, but women make up a minority of movie creators: 7 percent of the directors, 13 percent of the writers, 20 percent […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about ourselves in 2017 it’s that we are resilient. I feel I can speak for all of us when I say that 2017 tested us, over and over again. But we’ve made it through and can breathe again. We can finally stop carrying the emotional baggage we’ve been dragging […]
Anger is a difficult emotion. It causes us to “see red”, lose control and spur the situation on with reactions we almost always regret. One of the marks of maturity is being able to handle anger, to acknowledge it and move on from it. Anger is a poison. We all know the saying “holding onto […]
“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.” ― Carol S. Dweck We tend to look at ourselves as fixed […]
The Ascendant, also known as the Rising Sign, marks the beginning of the horoscope birth chart. The Ascendant is the most important angle of the chart and forms the cusp of the first house. The Ascendant marks your entry into this world at the moment of birth. The twelfth house is the house of confinement […]
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking Grief comes in more forms. For many, the end of a relationship is like a death. The disillusion of a friendship is a death. The unexpected shattering of a family is a […]
Antidepressants is a loaded topic. With advocates for it and critics against it, there may never be a straight forward answer if antidepressants are right for everyone. There are articles written about its harmful side effects and just as many written about its benefits. I recently came across Helen Rosner’s essay Not Everyone Feels This […]
As children, we are thought to act mostly from our emotional reactions and impulses, which in astrology, is represented by the Moon. Therefore the sign our Moon is in can reveal much about our personality expression as babies and children, up to a more mature age, where then, through growth and experience, our Sun also […]