We have written before about the ways in which creating and sticking to a budget can improve your finances and protect your sobriety. In this entry, however, we want to talk about a different kind of budget: your personal news budget. “Budget” is actually a term...
Meditation Is Not Just One Thing When you hear the word “meditation,” what comes to mind? The answer may depend on your experience (or lack of experience) with meditation practice, your faith tradition’s relationship (or lack of a relationship) with meditation, or how...
The classic movie (and now musical) Mary Poppins is filled with memorable songs. There’s “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” and “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” There’s “Jolly Holiday” and “Step in Time” and, of course, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” With all...
It is hardly a controversial statement to say that life is stressful. All of us are dealing with so many responsibilities, consequential choices, challenges of all kinds—we could go on and on. Here is another not terribly controversial statement: Managing stress...
Take a moment to think about the people who have really made a difference for you in key moments by saying just the right thing at the right time. Think about the folks who have been steadily encouraging as a matter of course. Maybe you are thinking of a parent who...
Depression If you will pardon the pun, you might call what we are about to share a depressing statistic. The National Institute of Mental Health estimated that over 16 million adults in the United States experienced at least one major depressive episode in 2016. That...
