By Leigh Newman Do-it-yourself columnist Leigh Newman shows us the stuff we just need somebody (read: anybody!) to help us with. 1. Apply liqu...
I've done something a few times over the past few months that I would never have dreamed over doing 10, five, or even two years ago. I've attended events completely stag. And let me tell you something, it ain't so bad.
By Alexandra Fuller The author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and the brilliant new memoir about her recent divorce, Falling, explains h...
By Deepak Chopra The co-founder of the Chopra Foundation and author of Super Brain shows you how to feel more fulfilled. The state of loneliness...
QUESTION Hi Irene, I find your blog very interesting and often moving. Sometimes my own circumstances mirror those of others who write to you. I'm 6...
Creativity is rooted in the complexity of the capacity to play. The capacity for play emanates and radiates from a sense of safety, an internalize...
Holidays have been etched into the our calendars as moments we "should" be sharing with friends and family. But sometimes, for one reason or another (...
Here are some possible reasons that someone might have difficulty developing close, reciprocal relationships with friends.
I still find that in my darkest moments, I feel like there's no one who really gets me, knows what I'm going through, or even cares enough to truly have my back. Do you ever feel like this yourself?
Soon after my first husband and I separated, in 2003, I bought the book How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen.
For many of us, workplaces have supplanted the roles once played by neighborhoods QUESTION Dear Irene, I just found your site while looking for a ...
Are you single and dreading the holidays? You may feel alone, but you are not. 45 percent of the adult population is single. 27 percent of households are a person living alone.
Once upon a time, a reporter for a major magazine declared, in all seriousness, that women should just get married already - even if it means settling...
Instead of focusing on what you don't have -- bring your awareness to what you do have. Friends, family, a job, your health, freedom to see whomever and do whatever you please, the ability to be of service, etc.
If you believe that you can only be happy with a partner, you keep waiting for someone to rescue you. The challenge is to break the patterns that keep you from living your life to the fullest.
