In a moment of activation—for example, when someone doesn’t respond to me in the way I’d like, criticizes or ignores me, or doesn’t...

When I refer to the “others” in my life, I am usually referring to external others; people outside of me with whom I am in...

Being held by each other . . . what does it mean . . . and how do we know holding is happening? Especially in the current conditions of...

Intimate relationships are one of the most exquisite, disappointing, frustrating, supportive, revealing and illuminating opportunities...

When things are falling apart, it can be so hard to maintain a sense of hope. When I have tried so hard to keep it all together, to...

Over time, I’ve noticed, Love (or Life, or Divine or God) moves into and out of form. Time dissolves the forms, but the Love remains, as...

by Tom Pyszczynski Fear and anxiety are two of the most intolerable emotions we humans are capable of experiencing. People will do...

It is not a mistake that you have been born into a complex human form with a sensitive, tender nervous system and a heart that is...

It is so easy for me to take tomorrow for granted, to expect another opportunity to watch the sunset, or take a hike on the coast, visit...

Sometimes I just want to take a day off from fixing myself, from practices and protocols that will enable me to become better or more . ....

Journal of Humanistic Psychology 2021, Vol. 61(2) 173–189 Tom Pyszczynski, McKenzie Lockett, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon Abstract...

When we are infants, feelings of shame or humiliation feel “bad”. As we adapt to our environment and to the moods, tempers and...

How awe neither denies nor catastrophizes death anxiety. By Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D. I've been hit with death anxiety or the fear of...

By Ewan Morrison Has COVID-19 changed the way you behave? Has it made you more depressed, defensive, or even aggressive? Since the...

By Mary Elizabeth Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the...