Leslie Glass's Blog, page 230
October 9, 2019
Why the opioid crisis isn’t a bigger federal election issue
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. The death toll from the opioid crisis has skyrocketed since the last federal election, but experts and advocates say...
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What Helped Me Reclaim the Creativity I Loved as a Kid
“Absolute attention is an act of generosity.” ~Simone Weil When I was a child, I used to write poems as presents for my parents on birthdays and holidays. I’d sit quietly and think of what I wanted to say. Then I’d try to turn that into musical language. I’d write those words on the page,...
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A New Tool for Getting Better at Spotting Gaslighters
How to know when someone is gaslighting you? The video below is a pilot for a new way of training people to detect gaslighting. It’s the audio of a generic argument with someone who fights generically, a know-it-all who has mastered the bag of cheap gaslighting tricks for ignoring all content and winning through ever-shifting empty...
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Ways to Counter the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Groundbreaking research conducted in the 1990s found that the greater number of negative childhood experiences a person had, the more likely they were to experience poor health outcomes later in life such as heart disease, liver disease, and cancer. A new study published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect has found that positive experiences, such...
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Are You Struggling to Recover from a Setback?
Are you struggling to recover from a setback? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Neil Pasricha, a former Walmart executive and the author of You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life....
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Mini Mind Break at the Waterfall
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October 8, 2019
October 7, 2019
Recovery: Leaving The Pity Party
When I was growing up my father kept a ledger in his head of what I cost: school, crooked teeth, music lessons, college, etc. It drove me nuts as the numbers mounted over the years, and I worried that he might be resentful or think I wasn’t worth it. For me, his cost counting (and...
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October 6, 2019
Mini Mind Break in the Snow
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