If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

As a therapist who specializes in eating disorders and body image concerns, I’ve spent years working with individuals and families trying to untangle the harmful messages we receive about bodies and ...

Body functionality refers to everything that the body can do. Body functions broadly fall into six domains, including (1) physical capacities (e.g., stretching), (2) internal processes (e.g., ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

When a society expects economic “winning” from all its members, it loses sight of their inherent preciousness. Last week, our household came down with hand-foot-and-mouth disease. Quarantined during ...