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The ways in which politicians and leaders in our country talk about obtaining a job is as though someone comes around waving a wand and under their reform, if you want a job, you get a job (used a lot of restraint to not include an Oprah meme here).

The last week of the semester is always full of chaos. Students are running around trying to calculate minimum passing scores, and faculty are regretting assigning holistic final exams instead of easily graded multiple-choice exams. It’s a time when most faculty are repeating the same jokes to one another about “another tough semester”, and students are huddled over their laptops on every inch of campus in their sweats.

Racial microaggressions are defined as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color” (Sue et al., 2007, p. 271).

It is easy to dismiss the latest trouble in the British Royal family with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepping away from their royal duties and wanting to forge their own life path as something unique that is unrelated to us mere mortals.

Growth only occurs when we take risks. I liken risk taking to laying down one brick at a time to form a path to an unknown destination with plenty of beauty and challenges along the way…

Welcome to the 10-part meditation blog series that focuses on the various ways that meditation can assist you and your overall well-being.

In my fourth blog on Mother-Daughter Attachment, I tell Selma’s story (name and identifying details changed) who came to see me because she wanted to stop putting herself last in her relationships because she was sick and tired of being overlooked and overruled by her husband, family, friends, and at work.

The holidays invoke a lot of different emotions, thoughts, and experiences unique to our cultural, spiritual, emotional, psychological, developmental, and personal encounters as we navigate our daily lives.

Anyone trolling Facebook or other social media outlets in the last month has likely seen a viral meme asking the user to post a picture of themselves from 2009 and then another from 2019 so that they and their peers can see the change a decade can make.

EVERYONE! You don’t have to have some enlightened, spiritual abilities to practice meditation. You don’t have to be a yogi and go around saying namaste to everyone. You don’t have to know someone within the meditation community to be invited into it. Literally anyone from toddlers to elders can do and benefit from meditation.