School of Life’s How to Live More Wisely with Our Phones is a remarkable essay about how we can gently balance our relationship to our smart phones. Here are the most useful and view-shifting hunks.
Read MoreIt is In (Y)OUR Self-Interest to Be Very Tender (Jenny Holzer +Emily Dickinson)
We never really considered the word tender until we saw artist Jenny Holzer’s extraordinary message years ago. What if we tried it for an hour/day/week?
Read MoreCompassionate Self-Criticism, in the Third Person
When performance coach Kate Conklin was teaching me Alexander Technique via Skype a couple of weeks ago, she mentioned that she often critiqued herself in the third person when she was assessing her own actions or work. She said that it made her kinder to herself, as she is when she works with a student. I’ve been trying this…
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