Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Hermes Rivera Jade Bilardi, et al
So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant.
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel
Sex helps initiate romantic relationships between potential partners, a new study finds.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
So many of us go through life trying to be better than someone else, or better than who we think we are, or better than who we've been. Just as Bruce Willis's character in The Kid, we go around trying to "achieve" -- achieve changing ourselves, changing others, and changing...
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- Written by: Jackson Holtz
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Katherine Gustafson
Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson.
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- Written by: Guillaume Thierry
English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency
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- Written by: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense.
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- Written by: Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.
What brings a person to consider celibacy for a few months or years cannot be easily explained. It will take some time to reap the results of greater tolerance for sexual feelings without needing to act on them in conventional ways. Sex will become more of a choice than a need.
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- Written by: Will Johnson
The practice of looking into someone’s eyes and holding his or her gaze stimulates the sensations and presence of the body so strongly that it can almost be thought of as touch at a distance. The primary reason that many people find gazing into another’s eyes so challenging and daunting...
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- Written by: Alfred Allan and Maria Allan
During the end-of-year holidays families often come together to exchange gifts and, sometimes, to confront long-held grudges. What better gift than a peace offering?
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- Written by: Maureen Healy
Our children feel things deeply, including surprise, delight, disgust, anger, frustration, revenge, jealousy, and enthusiasm. They often don’t even have the words to communicate their feelings, which is why they sometimes act them out inappropriately, but once they learn...
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- Written by: Jared Wadley
Improvisational theater training can reduce fearfulness and anxiety among teens struggling with social interactions, according to a new study.
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- Written by: James Urton
When school begins later, teens get more snooze time—and grades and attendance improve, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Armin A. Zadeh
A great irony of human existence is that love, which is arguably the single most desired goal in life, is so poorly understood and so hard for us to master. Given its importance, we might expect that enormous resources would be spent on understanding how to attain love.
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- Written by: Michael J. Gelb
Empathy is a powerful tool that can significantly enhance relationships and enrich lives. By truly understanding and connecting with others, individuals can create trust and deeper connections. Techniques for practicing empathy include active listening and being present without offering advice, which can lead to more meaningful interactions and support.
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- Written by: Walter Ling, MD
People are meant to live in communities. It is our nature; it is in our genes and in our jeans. Being connected with other people is crucial to our happiness.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
Can you recognize your innocence when others are trying to convince you that you are guilty? None of us have truly sinned. Yes, we have made plenty of mistakes, but none of us has done anything that would cause us for even a moment to lose the love of God or deserve damnation.
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- Written by: Jesse Davis
I feel that now is the time to take a completely different look at Homosexuality! With modern science suspecting the causes of same-sex orientation to be genetic, it is time to dispel the myths of choice. When people are born a certain way through no choice of their own -- such as race, or looks, or handicaps -- should they be penalized by society? Is that fair?... I think not.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
December 21, 1968 was our wedding day. It was the happiest day for me. After four years of loving Barry and having people tell us that a Jewish/Christian marriage just cannot work, we were actually doing it. I was marrying the love of my life, the man foretold to me by an inner voice when I was nine years old...
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
One of the key lessons in my Life Coach Training Program is the technique of reframing, taking a situation that seems daunting and finding another way to look at it that is empowering.
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- Written by: Laura Bailey
Don’t force an unremorseful kid to apologize until they’re truly sorry, new research suggests. The point of an apology—to express remorse and repair relationships—is lost because children may dislike the apologizer even more after the insincere apology than before.
