Tools & Practices

Anything proscriptive: meditation, humming...

May 07, 2025

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

Amanda Stern

Apr 30, 2025

The Meaning We Make: How Neutral Thoughts Become Personal Truth

In the space between thinking and feeling

Amanda Stern

Apr 16, 2025

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy

Amanda Stern

Apr 09, 2025

The Hidden Language of Healing: 10 Things Every Great Therapist Knows

A primer on what's left unsaid

Amanda Stern

Mar 26, 2025

The Vigilant Heart: Hypervigilance and Emotional Exhaustion

What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about the exhausting vigilance that keeps love at bay

Amanda Stern

Mar 12, 2025

Necessary Questions: Seven Inquiries That Reveal the Hidden Self

What you avoid asking might be what you need to know most.

Amanda Stern

Jan 29, 2025

Medicine Without Medicine: The Radical Cure of a Beloved Cult Doctor

John Sarno and the History of Psychosomatic Illness

Amanda Stern

Jan 22, 2025

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Amanda Stern

Jan 08, 2025

Albert Bandura on Self-Efficacy: The Science of Confidence and the Belief in One’s Potential

Why Confidence is a Practice, Not a Trait

Amanda Stern

Jan 01, 2025

Feeling Before Thinking: What Susan Sontag Taught Us About Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

Amanda Stern

Nov 20, 2024

The Art of Surrender: Finding Sleep at 3am

For Adam W, and for you...

Amanda Stern

Nov 06, 2024

On Glimmers and Grounding: A Guide to Rebalancing Your Nervous System

Polyvagal Theory and the Vagus Nerve

Amanda Stern