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Self-Care Tips from Slow Animals and Helpful Droids
Spirituality & Health

Self-Care Tips from Slow Animals and Helpful Droids

Meditate with (rev) Sarah Bowen and her favorite creatures at sacredsendoffs.com/ meditations.

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5 mins  |
May/June 2022
Billy Collins
Spirituality & Health

Billy Collins

“Read. Just Read,” advises Billy Collins. “The best teachers are not lecturing behind some seminar table, but are instead sitting quietly on the bookshelves of your home.”

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4 mins  |
May/June 2022
A Better Friend
Spirituality & Health

A Better Friend

Victor Parachin dives into the Buddha’s advice for being a better friend.

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5 mins  |
May/June 2022
Spirituality & Health

RESTORING RELATIONSHIPS to Ourselves, to One Another, and to the Earth

AN INTERVIEW WITH FARIHA RÓISÍN

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10+ mins  |
May/June 2022
READING AS A SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
Spirituality & Health

READING AS A SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

GRACE JI-SUN KIM encourages us to see reading in a new light.

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3 mins  |
May/June 2022
FOCUSING ON WHAT MATTERS MOMENT BY MOMENT
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FOCUSING ON WHAT MATTERS MOMENT BY MOMENT

The Summer 2002 issue of S&H included this still-timely article

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May/June 2022
Spirituality & Health

LOGGING INTO Online Wellness

LEARNING CAN IMPROVE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE—AND THE EFFECT IS TWOFOLD FOR COURSES ON WELLNESS AND SELF-BETTERMENT.

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4 mins  |
May/June 2022
HOW TO LAMENT
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HOW TO LAMENT

JENNIE MCLAURIN, MD, MPH, gives instructions to guide a rediscovery of this age-old tradition.

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May/June 2022
Seeing Is Empathy
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Seeing Is Empathy

Mixed-media artist Morgan Harper Nichols explores how art can lead to empathy.

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6 mins  |
March/April 2022
5 Care Tips: Pineal Gland
Spirituality & Health

5 Care Tips: Pineal Gland

The pineal gland, which is about the size of a grain of rice, is located in the center of the brain (although technically it is not part of the brain). Its main function is to receive signals from the environment about the amount and quality of light so that it knows how much melatonin to produce to help us wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. Melatonin is involved in much more than sleep, however. It plays a role in sexual development and is a strong antioxidant, among other functions.

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2 mins  |
March/April 2022
NO WRONG ANSWERS
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NO WRONG ANSWERS

CONFUSED ABOUT ORACLE CARDS? ORACLE EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT.

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10+ mins  |
March/April 2022
Follow your curiosity, find your purpose
Spirituality & Health

Follow your curiosity, find your purpose

My mother’s death at one hundred years old rocked my world.

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7 mins  |
March/April 2022
Walk With Wonder
Spirituality & Health

Walk With Wonder

Welcome wellness through new practices for the mind and body.

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10+ mins  |
March/April 2022
What's Strong With Me?
Spirituality & Health

What's Strong With Me?

The Soul of Therapy

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6 mins  |
March/April 2022
Your Anxiety Isn't All in Your Head
Spirituality & Health

Your Anxiety Isn't All in Your Head

Ellen Vora, MD, is a psychiatrist, a yoga instructor, an acupuncturist, and a witch—and she’s on a mission to radically change the way we approach mental illness. Her groundbreaking new book is The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response.

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10+ mins  |
March/April 2022
The Shamanic Bones of Zen
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The Shamanic Bones of Zen

"Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition"

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1 min  |
January/February 2022
Lessons From an Underwater Monastery
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Lessons From an Underwater Monastery

“IF YOU LEAVE this earth before me, I’m becoming a monk,” I once told my husband, staring over the impossibly high-cliffed walls of Greece’s Meteora monasteries.

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5 mins  |
March/April 2022
Jess Polanshek
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Jess Polanshek

S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with artist Jess Polanshek about drawing porcupines, working at an art supply store, and embracing layers. Look for her work throughout the issue.

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3 mins  |
March/April 2022
Hedonism and Spirituality
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Hedonism and Spirituality

ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER

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6 mins  |
March/April 2022
NEW HOME, OLD TRADITION
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NEW HOME, OLD TRADITION

KATE MADDEN YEE describes her spiritual journey, which took her back

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6 mins  |
March/April 2022
JULIA CAMERON
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JULIA CAMERON

“WE ARE NOT CREATED to be thwarted. Rather, we were made for full flowering,” creativity doyenne Julia Cameron writes in her new book, Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection. And Cameron’s career is testament to this: Beginning with The Artist’s Way, the creative unblocking primer she published in 1992 (it’s sold more than four million copies since), Cameron has not only nurtured her own creative life over decades, but she’s also sparked that of countless others through the use of down-to-earth tools such as daily writing and weekly Artist Dates—practices that, in her case, have led to more than 40 books of nonfiction, fiction, and memoir; four poetry collections; seven plays; and a feature film.

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March/April 2022
Taking It Home
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Taking It Home

"Hang on to the positive effects of your retreat"

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5 mins  |
January/February 2022
The Grieving Brain
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The Grieving Brain

The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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1 min  |
January/February 2022
The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism
Spirituality & Health

The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism

Transform, Heal, and Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine

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1 min  |
January/February 2022
It's Time for Shedding
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It's Time for Shedding

The Chinese Zodiac suggests that while snake people may be seductive and slightly dangerous, at the same time they are intelligent, wise, and the most intuitive of all personalities.

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5 mins  |
January/February 2022
How to Embody Kindness
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How to Embody Kindness

Lessons from a lifetime of spiritual adventure

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10+ mins  |
January/February 2022
Surviving Widowhood
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Surviving Widowhood

GUEST COLUMNIST LESLIE GRAY STREETER

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5 mins  |
January/February 2022
I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!
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I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

THE HEART OF HAPPINESS

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4 mins  |
January/February 2022
Root & Ritual
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Root & Ritual

Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self

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1 min  |
January/February 2022
HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR RETREAT
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HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR RETREAT

I was fortunate enough to sail to perhaps the original, and certainly the most famous, ancient healing retreat—the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, on the Argolid Peninsula in Greece.

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January/February 2022