When I see couples or individuals in therapy, our initial focus is clearly on their presenting problems—stopping out-of-control arguments, finding tools to calm their anxiety. But once these issues ...

Life as a journey; life as a quest; life as a purpose; life as… life? We have different ways of trying to make sense of what passing through time means—this doing-what-we-do within this box of years.

What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

When you look back on your life’s story, what will you see? Will it be a narrative of bold choices and intentional living or one of drifting through the years? This question was posed to me by a close ...

Ever feel like life is slipping through your fingers? Slowing down can do more than just relax you. Here is how it shifts the way you experience life. Growing up comes with an unspoken contract of ...

When someone asks you what is your life mission … how do you respond? A lot of us probably get tongue-tied thinking of our response, and most of us are likely to not have an immediate answer. For 31 ...

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. At the beginning of the year, I always like to do a couple of episodes on things ...