Maybe they’ve heard meditation will bring peace, happiness, or some kind of calm state of mind. But there’s a misunderstanding that causes many people to eventually give up the practice. Because ...

I couldn’t tell you the exact morning it started. It was more like this: lately, I’ve noticed that I’ve been holding my breath a lot. Not in any dramatic way—just a tightness in my chest that moved in ...

The texts and calls come crashing in. They almost feel like an assault, even though I love everybody who is taking the time to reach out. But, I am far away from everything and everyone—even my own ...

There are seasons in life when something inside us constricts before it expands. It’s subtle at first—a held breath, a swallowed truth, a lump in the throat. We call it anxiety, nervousness, burnout, ...

When a client discloses how unhappy they are with their partner, I always ask the same question: So what is keeping you with them? And almost every time, I get the same answer: “because I love them.” ...

For the past several years, it’s safe to say that many of us have been carrying a kind of tired that doesn’t go away with a day off or an extra hour of sleep. It’s not just that we’re juggling more.

Our Ecosystem makes it easy to Get your message out to thousands—& get paid. Unlike Instagram or Facebook, Elephant is independent, and mission-driven—and despite having (slightly) fewer resources, we ...

My goodness—what can I say about all we’ve been through with this madman’s erratic words and behaviors? And what can I say about my reactions? All the ones I didn’t want to have, and yet I was full of ...

I used to care about a lot of things. More than I want to admit. Opinions of strangers, judgments from people I barely knew, the little social niceties that slowly felt like chains. I thought being ...

I was mid-sentence when I realized the conversation was already over. Nothing had been said to end it. There was no argument. No raised voices. But something had shifted. I could feel it. It’s the ...

For a long time, I thought intimacy was something you found—through a person, a relationship, or a shared history that made something feel special and rare. I believed connection lived somewhere ...

There is a subtle but pervasive distortion happening within the language of healing. It does not announce itself loudly, nor does it come dressed in obvious cruelty. It arrives instead in the form of ...