How we wake up (a birth of sorts) shapes the hours that follow. How we prepare for sleep (a death of sorts) informs the quality of our rest. If you let your phone dictate these moments, you cede attentional control to digital platforms. We must treat these two moments as sacred, on our own terms. […]

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?” — Lao Tzu I was 21, entering my senior year at the University of Michigan, and applied to twelve doctoral programs. I got accepted to Hofstra University and moved to Long Island with my then-girlfriend in August of 2015. […]

What values do we want to live by? In graduate school, I trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The modality is predicated on determining values that will guide behavior. Values are thought of not as goals and ambitions, rather, as guidelines for how to live. They are points of reference for small and large decisions […]