I can only meet you as deeply as I’ve met myself. You can only meet me as deeply as you’ve met yourself. I finally watched the TV series “Adolescence” over the weekend, and it’s been haunting me. Not ...
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When I first got into astrology, I was a kid. I was fascinated by the idea of understanding myself better—outside of my parents, my culture, my home, and where I grew up. I would look to anything that ...
We get older. We watch those in our lives get older. People come in and out of our lives. We have a front row seat to the miracle of new life as family and friends have children. We watch them grow up ...
To my children, I’m sorry for the unhealed parts of me that may have hurt you. It was never a lack of love for you—only a lack of love for myself. I am far from perfect; in fact, I spend most of my ...
This was one of the few gifts of 2020, as it put a colossal spotlight on the negative impact that spiritual bypassing has on the world and on ourselves.
We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...
Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...
“If I needed you, would you come to me, would you come to me to ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you, I would come to you to ease your pain.” ~ Townes Van Zandt This used to be one of ...
What the f*ck. I am not 10 years old. But my therapist was insistent. In the aftermath of a marriage that blew up like a supernova, I was at the beginning of my journey to figure out why my ...
What does it mean? Where do we get it wrong? And how do we practice it wholeheartedly? In our day-to-day lives, we have opportunity after opportunity to show up empathetically for the people around us ...