Suzanne Venker has written a book, The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men & Marriage, which helps women who are used to being in charge learn how to be better wives. This author has some startling insights into the current state of relationships and marriage. In an interview, Venker, author of five books on marriage, feminism […] More
Did you love those Back to the Future movies as much as I did? You’re probably nodding your head, at least if you’ve been born in the 80ies. For the younger ones among us, or basically for anyone not into sci-fi comedies, Back to the Future was released in 1989 and made a range of […] More
Overcoming our fears is one of the great challenges we all face. They can get inside our heads and stop us doing what we really want to do in life. We can become so consumed by them that we stop living. But the truth is, fear is just created in our minds. It’s not “real”. […] More
For years I struggled to find the peace I really wanted. You know the dream: Happiness Not overthinking No anxiety Physically fit And to live every moment without being distracted by the past or the future. During that time, I lived with anxiety, insomnia and way too much useless thinking going on in my head. […] More
Conventional wisdom says that women are not meant to be alone. Single women are often singled out and made to feel like a failure for not being in a permanent relationship or married. We constantly get the message that there’s something wrong with us, that we must get married in order to live happily ever […] More
Society has developed beyond the traditional marriage set up with the wife working for a few years and then stepping back to start a family. More and more women decide to postpone childbearing and the longer such a woman waits, the more likely she’ll be worried about her biological clock running out. Because there’s an […] More
Globally, more than 300 million people suffer from depression, which is the leading cause of disability according to the World Health Organization (WHO). To make matters worse, many of these people also suffer from symptoms of anxiety. The cost to the global economy is an estimated US$ 1 trillion. Depression and anxiety make it very […] More
Deriving meaning from a story requires something abstract beyond language itself. Researchers at University of Southern California has found that people who read the same story but in different languages (Chinese person reads the story in Mandarin Chinese, Iranian person reads it in Farsi and English-speaking person reads it in English) use the same parts […] More
What’s the secret to longevity? It’s not an easy question to answer. Some people say it’s diet. Other people say it’s keeping stress to a minimum. But according to longevity expert, Susan Pinker, it’s none of these things. After studying an area in an Italian island in the Mediterranean known for the occupants longevity, she […] More
Being young and female is a curse in some ways. Walking by yourself down the street you’re bound to be followed by lewd comments and loudly announced sexual innuendo, the center of male attention like some public trophy. Unwanted sexual attention is off-putting at least and threatening at worst. No woman relishes catcalling. Women have […] More
Marc Lewis took a very round about route on his way to becoming a neuroscientist. He spent his youth experimenting with all manner of drugs and chronicled his experiences in his best-selling memoir, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain. His second book, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease is a lone voice […] More
We have all done or said things that we are profoundly ashamed of. No human being escapes the black spiral of shame that dissolves self-love and self-acceptance like acid. To be human is to be ashamed of yourself at some point in your life. I wish from the bottom of my heart for every single […] More