When Your Kindness Flows Easily to Others but Not to Yourself
Join the Tiny Buddha list to get 20 free gifts, including challenges, workbooks, and more! “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~Louise L. Hay There it was—glaringly obvious on the page. An embarrassing typo stared back at me from the backside […]
Can You Really Become Addicted to Love or Sex?
In contemporary society, we are quick to pathologize our behaviors. We jokingly call our fondness for cleaning “OCD,” sometimes argue that “we’re all a little autistic,” and haphazardly label our tumultuous on-and-off relationships with our toxic exes “Stockholm Syndrome.” While popular culture may lead you to believe that love and sex addictions are not only […]
Understanding and Navigating Weight Loss Medications
The goods on game-changing GLP-1 and semaglutide weight loss medications, and 6 steps to a healthy approach to weight loss and management. In a world where we are bombarded with social media influencers and celebrities using their sizable audiences to impart their experiences, thoughts, and unsolicited advice, there is no substitute for sound medical advice […]
When to Announce Your Pregnancy: What the Research Says
(By Eva Ritvo, MD and Stephanie Lechich, PhD) When Dr. L walked into her dinner meeting at 10 weeks pregnant, she hesitated before speaking. A clinical psychologist with a busy practice, she’d counseled women through fertility challenges and early pregnancy anxiety. Now she faced her own private reckoning: Should she share the news? The familiar […]
Can a Ketogenic Diet “Cure” Schizophrenia?
While travelling on a series of national speaking engagements for the “Take Back Your Health Tour,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently made a remarkable claim. At the Tennessee State Capitol, Kennedy stated that a doctor at Harvard had “…cured schizophrenia using keto diets….” and that “there are studies right now […]
10 Movies That Highlight the Best in Humanity: 2026
Every year, we at Greater Good give “Greater Goodies” to movies that illuminate human strengths and virtues. This year’s list includes films from all over the world, and many of them seem to share a special focus on love, courage, and connection. Is that an accident? Perhaps not. It’s quite possible that many artists around […]
Fostering Independence in Teens and Young Adults with ADHD
This post was co-authored by Anthony L. Rostain. Parenting a teen or young adult with ADHD can feel like walking a tightrope: you want to keep them safe, and you want them to grow. In today’s “always‑on” world—post‑pandemic, digitally saturated, and full of uncertainty—that balance is harder than ever. This guide distills practical insights and […]
Lessons from Cultivating Forgiveness in Faith-Based…
In 2004, I was approached by an administrator at John Brown University, a Christian school in Arkansas. He invited me to campus to help create an event to encourage students to practice forgiveness more often, and he was open to using the experience as a research study. For Christians, forgiveness and love are the two […]
IFS Research: Group Therapy for PTSD and Substance Use
This post was co-authored by Martha Sweezy, Dilara Ally, Laure Tobiasz Veltz, Alexandra Comeau, Clare Bumpus, Tori Blot, Fiona Kate Rice, Brian Orr, Hanna Soumerai Rea, and Zev Schuman-Olivier. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) co-occurs with substance use disorder (SUD) at high rates of between 30 and 60 percent. Present-centered treatments for PTSD-SUD are generally group-based, […]
When AI Offers More Wisdom Than Humans
I’ve spent over 20 years as a therapist listening to people’s most intimate struggles, and lately, something keeps me up at night. The conversations people are having with AI are often gentler, more thoughtful, and more compassionate than the ones they’re having with other humans. Let’s Look in the Mirror Right now, humans seem to […]