I hesitated whether to post this extremely powerful letter because I want this blog to be a therapeutic space and don’t want the content to serve as a trigger to anyone who has survived sexual trauma. However, with that said, I found the words of this woman to be too important to ignore, and her courage and resiliency to be too astounding not to share. Towards the end of the letter, the survivor thanks the various people in her life who served as a source of support and refer

On the Ted Radio Hour “Simply Happy”, Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist explains that we are all hard wired to be happy because our brain has the ability to synthesize happiness. He begins his interview by discussing that over the past 2 million years the human brain has nearly tripled in mass to be 3 pounds, and a major addition to the human brain is the part of the pre-frontal cortex, which has the ability to be an “experience simulator”. This means that we are able to

An interesting article in the New York Times highlights a study that potentially answers the question of why some people are more resilient than others. The study found that it may be due to how an individual listens to his or her body. It is important to define resiliency. The article states, "In scientific terms, resilience is the ability to rapidly return to normal, both physically and emotionally, after a stressful event." For the study, 48 people who self-identified as h