Philip Chard

Frequently, people trade away their dreams, passions, autonomy and principles for promises of money, security and success, small comforts that rarely compensate for losing or repressing key elements of one's character and identity.

Have you accepted the idea that young is attractive and old is not? Are you certain this is true?

Are emotions a source of wisdom? Not always, but often when we allow ourselves to sit with them instead of labeling or manipulating them, they catalyze our intuition and insight.

Our noisy, media frenzied, grab-your-attention world makes solitude hard to find. There are different kinds of deprivation that adversely impact mental well-being.

A large study indicates that, unless one's romantic liaison is what psychologists call “high quality,” one is mentally better off being single.

Adults are supposed to express their wants and needs in a direct and transparent manner rather than pull peoples' chains with woeful whines, pouts, and long faces.

There's nothing inherently wrong with concealing things from a loved one provided doing so does not undermine the relationship or harm the other person in some other manner.

The symptoms? Loneliness, touch hunger, a feeling of insignificance or a sense of psychological invisibility. In some, it can lead to bitterness and hostility.

The future is uncertain, which provides the mind space for imagining, including imagining something potentially good, something to offset what is currently distressing.

Regulating one's animosity is often no easy lift. When the emotional brain gets hijacked in this manner, the so-called rational mind goes offline.