A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Mar 15
No one would argue the power music can have on mood. There is even evidence that musical exposure to fetuses has a positive impact on neural development. Music is powerful.
Mar 14
It was strange to realize one winter that I’d gone through an invisible and unconscious transformation: I’d become supremely careful on ice.
Mar 01
Feb 14
Leo Bird knows what it’s like to walk into a cafeteria and be faced with what might seem like a mild dilemma: where to sit. Except it’s not mild, not mild at all.
Feb 08
Gratitude saves us at the most unlikely times. A friend of mine who lost his wife to cancer was overwhelmed with gratitude for the beautiful life they’d had together.
Jan 31
After a long job-seeking rejection streak, one of organizational psychologist Robert Cialdini’s clients started asking one simple question at the beginning of a job interview...
Jan 23
I once knew a couple who took stock of their marriage every year to decide if they were going to renew the contract.
Jan 17
“There’s an old saw that goes something like this: It used to be that a happy man just had to make a hundred bucks more than his brother-in-law. Now because of social media...
Jan 10
Sometimes we get so tangled up in our mind we have a hard time seeing clearly -- being able to see where we are -- which is why this poem by a young Japanese schoolboy* is so startling:
Jan 03
Several lifetimes ago I moved to Washington, DC and married a man who made it a habit to regularly visit the Air & Space Museum.