The dreaded midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes — but it’s actually really serious. After I lost a few friends to midlife suicide, I set out to

November 13, 2023

In his book “From Wild Man to Wise Man,” priest and teacher Richard Rohr writes that many people experience an immense father hunger, a “huge, aching hole inside that is

November 12, 2023

Years ago, I was training novice psychotherapists, who just as I did when I was in training, felt tremendous anxiety about our respective ineptitude, wanting to leave behind all of

November 11, 2023

Why does every beautiful face grow in old ageWrinkled like the back of a Libyan lizard?Why does a full head of hair get bald?Why is it that the Lion’s strength

November 10, 2023

This is the last quarter we will offer only Baja workshops as starting in April, we’ll have workshops in both Baja and Santa Fe. And, if this fourth quarter has

November 9, 2023

What’s to be learned from the owl? Jimi Hendrix said, “Knowledge speaks, and wisdom listens.” Owls invite us to become “first-class noticers” who blend into the background so they can

November 8, 2023

My two Brit friends, Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton, wrote “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity” seven years ago, suggesting that the tyranny of the

November 7, 2023

We spend much of our early adulthood obsessed with our “little self,” the ego-defined way we show up in the world. As a good ego should, the little self separates

November 6, 2023

Beautiful Serenbe near Atlanta, Georgia was the venue where 12 of us, 4 more compadres online (and Chip online) met for an alumni cohort reunion of 28 Degrees. Thanks to

November 5, 2023

Then he added, “For myself, I mean.” I appreciated that he wasn’t trying to push it on me, but simply had found it helpful and was offering it for consideration.

November 4, 2023

We cite Joseph Campbell quite a bit at MEA, but it wasn’t until I read Rick Moody’s insightful monthly “Human Values in Aging” newsletter that I saw Campbell’s beautiful piece

November 3, 2023

However, she’s most notable for choosing to go skydiving at 104 years old, as captured in this New York Times article and video. And for the record, this was her

November 2, 2023