Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...

Source: Photo by Life Unstill Photography, used with permission Huge Pain Relief Last February, I got a brand new spinal cord stimulator that offers me a huge amount of pain relief. I could suddenly ...

As someone who teaches death and dying—and as a person who has experienced loss (who hasn’t?)—I’m intimately familiar with the concept of acceptance. In these models, acceptance is the goal, I tell my ...