Menopause: End of the Road, or the Start of a New Adventure?

Menopause and You
Menopause has long been a sensitive issue for women, regardless of their societal origins. It is often seen as the end of their sexuality. It is generally anticipated with a great amount of negativity and dread by both women and men. The generational perception has been proliferated by folklore, and perpetuated by the [...]

Outer Affluence, Inner Emptiness, Behavioral Solutions

By external standards, life in contemporary society has never been so good.  The more affluent modern nations abound in opportunities, entertainments, pleasures and possibilities unthinkable to earlier generations.  The wealthiest conquerors and rulers of a century ago could not access a thousandth part of the medical care, art, knowledge, or globe-spanning educational resources that even [...]

Self Image, Body Image

Self-image – sometimes also referred to as self-identity, self-concept, or (among cognitive psychologists) self-schema – is an overall representation that a person holds of himself or herself and regards as accurate.  It is not the same thing as self-awareness, though self-awareness is needed for any self-examination that aspires to objectivity.  Nor is it necessarily conscious:  [...]

Defeating the Sense of Failure

What Is Failure?
Christopher Columbus set out on an expedition to find a new sea route to the riches of India, and failed completely – he succeeded only in finding America. Thomas Edison made anecdotally at least, over ten thousand attempts to create the electric light bulb; virtual failures. Until the last attempt succeeded, [...]