Anxiety Sucks, But It Taught Me These 7 Important Things

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ~Soren Kierkegaard Let’s be clear: This isn’t an article about positive thinking. This isn’t an article about how silver linings make everything okay. This isn’t an article about how your perspective on anxiety is all wrong. The kids call those things “toxic positivity.” No toxic positivity here. This is an article […]

What Panic Taught Me About My Parenting

A few summers ago, my daughter went camping on an island with friends. Normally, she lets me know when she’s traveling and when she arrives—a quick text, a photo from the road, or what our family calls “destination calling.” When my kids first started venturing around New York City on their own, I asked them […]

What Harry Styles Fans Taught Me About Happiness

For my daughter’s 15th birthday, I treated her to a Harry Styles concert. There I was, a dad surrounded by 15,000 giddy, elaborately dressed teenage girls in a sports stadium. You may smirk at the vision of a wizened professor in a sea of boas and sequins. But the experience shot through me, a neuroscientist […]