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Dealing with Headaches
According to the National Headache Foundation, over 45 million Americans suffer from chronic, recurring headaches, and of these, 28 million suffer from migraines. About 20% of children and adolescen…
Spirit Bathing for the Worried and Beleaguered
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
— Jack Gilbert, A…
My Neck as a Pleasure Palace
The neck is a busy body part. In the front it contains vessels for speech, eating, blood, and breath. In the back it houses the spinal cord which beams brain signals to the heart and the rest of the…
What We Think after 2017
In its December 22 - December 29, 2017 print issue, The Week sums up the odd mixture of trends, events, and cultural phenomena of the last year as seen through a potpourri of polls. Here are some of…
Is Anxiety a Way of Life for Our Generation?
By Uday Schultz for KidSpirit's Fear and Anxiety Issue.
We are the generation of stress. Generation Z, the Post-Millenials, Gen Tech, the young people of today — we are, more than seemingly eve…
Why Are We Resilient?
By Vanita Sharma for KidSpirit's Resilience issue.
Landing on my high school’s junior varsity tennis team for the third time in a row was devastating.
After spending hours, even years, …
What Playfulness Can Do For You
Leon Neyfakh at bostonglobe.com writes about the interest of scientific researchers in adult playfulness. We’ve seen lots of studies about our activities as workers, thinkers, and problem solvers …
Smiling as Mouth Yoga
How we marvel at the delightful smile of an infant; there's little we won't do to win another one! As we grow older the act of smiling changes into a complex nonverbal interchange; a smile is part o…
My Shoulders: Issues in the Tissues?
When I was a teenager I remember being told by my parents and other adults to stand up straight. But my shoulders were already rounded and my chest caved in as if I were hiding.
Jonathan Fields,…
By the Glorious Morning Light
Artwork by: Artwork by: Artur Zhuk, age 13
Written by: Fatima Shafi
1 By the glorious morning light;
2 and by the night when it darkens,
3 your Lord has not forsaken you, nor is H…
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