A few months ago, I stumbled across a local museum website announcement for a new offering of a free 50-minute weekly yoga class. To circumvent the sedentar...

"My birth was not a celebrated and magical event. My parents’ relationship had always been rocky and, sadly, it completely unraveled during my mother’s pr...

Mentoring comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s not always a meeting for coffee and reporting back. It can happen in a variety of different ways, like meeti...

My mind was trying to kill me again. “Who do you think you are?” it growled as I squatted in a green porta potty four and a half miles into the Columbus Ma...

In most ways, Sarada Chiruvolu is no different from the billions of people who share the earth today. She was 14 years-old when she left India and made th...

Sexual assault is one of the most terrifying experiences anyone can endure. For those who have experienced sexual assault, it is a life-altering experienc...

Some emotions are absolutely incompatible with one another. In other words, experiencing one emotion can make it harder to experience another emotion. You...

"It is hard to know sometimes how our life has changed until we stop for a moment and look at how different it is from ten or even five years ago. In rece...

“It is no secret that the Earth is in trouble and that we humans are to blame. Just knowing these grim facts, however, won’t get us very far. We have to t...

Kamla K. Kapur is a critically acclaimed author, playwright and poet. She is the author of Ganesha Goes to Lunch, Rumi’s Tales from the Silk Road, and The Si...

Several years ago, my paternal grandmother passed. It was a difficult time. My aunt, with whom I was very close, had just lost her mother and we were both...

We’ve all heard it before, “You can’t love others before you learn to love yourself.” While this may sound like a worn out cliché, the truth is, we all kn...

“In earlier times of human history, people lived in harmony with the natural world, and regarded plants as sentient, aware, intelligent, alive, and healer...

Ayurvedic culinary expert Divya Alter, chef-owner of Divya’s Kitchen in New York City, talks about her relationship with food as if…well, as if she is in lov...

A few years ago, I had the strangest dream. My husband and I were together and according to the clothes we wore, the time period was around the 1800’s. In ...

Many writers have found the act of writing is not only a wonderful tool to help you understand yourself, but can also be an incredible mechanism for person...

“What is it we are searching for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure t...

A belief system is a structured process by which we evaluate everything in our lives. Our personal belief system not only determines how we interpret the w...

Sergio Magaña was born into a traditional Catholic, Mexican family. Because his mother worked, he was strongly influenced by his nanny Rosita, who taught ...

“Getting blown up was not a solo event, but the experience and interpretations set forth in this book are mine alone. To my knowledge, no one else present...