Category: Reading
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Substance-Assisted Spiritual Awakening?
Read more: Substance-Assisted Spiritual Awakening?A piece of Bill W’s story that didn’t make the Big Book, reported by the New York Times: Were Bill Wilson’s spiritual awakening and influential sobriety the products of a belladonna hallucination shortly after his discussions with his friend Ebby Thacher? Could they have been incited by his alcohol withdrawal symptoms? Or did something else…
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Human Being v. Human Doing
Read more: Human Being v. Human DoingJim Taylor, PhD asks, Are you raising a human being or a human doing? Having internalized their perceptions of being a human doing from their parents, children come to love themselves only when they are successful and experience nothing less than self-loathing when they fail. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Po Bronson sounded the alarm about…
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How Not to Raise a Bully
Read more: How Not to Raise a BullyFrom Time.com: How Not to Raise a Bully. (In short: teach empathy.) Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes — has…
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Is Marriage Good for Your Health?
Read more: Is Marriage Good for Your Health?A big NYT Magazine piece by Tara Parker-Pope surveys the research about marriage, health, and happiness, and finds mixed messages. [W]hile it’s clear that marriage is profoundly connected to health and well-being, new research is increasingly presenting a more nuanced view of the so-called marriage advantage. Several new studies, for instance, show that the marriage advantage…
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L.A. Rehab: Beit T’Shuvah
Read more: L.A. Rehab: Beit T’ShuvahThe L.A. Times profiles Beit T’Shuvah. The Venice Blvd. rehab combines the twelve steps with Jewish spirituality . At the helm, Mark Borovitz, con man turned rabbi–his autobiography is The Holy Thief.