Rhoda P. Curtis, 2/7/12

Author, 'Rhoda: Her First Ninety Years' and 'After Ninety: What'

Learning is an ongoing process that doesn't end with old age. Learning anything requires discipline, practice, humility and hard work. It's intensely rewarding, and the process is invigorating.

Colleen Morton Busch, 2/7/12

Author, 'Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara'

I don't have to hate or shove away what I want to remove from the premises. In fact, I can even love it and wish it well while letting it go.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, 2/6/12

Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health

There has been a lot of smoke from the DSM fires. The field trials should help all concerned see through the smoke and into the embers of advancing the complex and continuous process of improving what we know about diagnosis in psychiatry.

BritChick Paris, 2/6/12

British girl living the Parisian life with all its highs and lows

For me being in the present is ultimately about letting go of systems or coping mechanisms from the past.

Sam Sommers, 2/6/12

Professor, Tufts University; Author

It's one of the perils of theorizing about sex differences: Our own expectations and intuitions get in the way. We hear about a study that reveals a significant sex gap and we immediately jump to conclusions.

Mark C. Russell, Ph.D., ABPP, 2/5/12

Retired U.S. Navy Commander, Military Clinical Psychologist

Media and official reports on prevalence rates of military war stress injury have focused almost exclusively on escalating rates of well-known war stress injuries such as PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the true impact from war trauma cannot be reduced to a handful of psychiatric diagnoses, as some may want.

E. C. Hurley, Ph.D., 2/5/12

Retired Colonel in U.S. Army

Many veterans never dreamed of needing help coping with life following combat deployments. While the impact of surviving in a combat zone has left many veterans seeking help in overcoming posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there have been significant advances in treatment.

Art Markman, Ph.D., 2/3/12

Executive Editor, Cognitive Science; Psychology and Marketing Professor, UT Austin; Director, the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations

As you get older, worrying about declines in memory is far more damaging to your ability to think than any actual declines in memory ability. So relax. When you get older, you probably aren't that much more forgetful than your typical teen.

Dan Gottlieb, Ph.D., 2/3/12

author of The Wisdom of Sam: Observations on Life from an Uncommon Child

We try to create order by blaming someone or something. We can blame God and sometimes even blame the victim. But usually we blame ourselves, irrational as it may be. All of this is an effort to calm our brains and try to make sense of our lives.

Barbara Hannah Grufferman, 2/3/12

Writer; Speaker; Author, 'The Best of Everything After 50'

When I turned 50 a few years ago, I was overwhelmed by the stuff that had accumulated over the years, and I realized that it wasn't just physical clutter but mental clutter, as well.

Miriam Mason Martineau, 2/2/12

Vice President - Next Step Integral; integral counsellor; parenting coach; writer; educator

I learn to trust that, much like the growth that takes place beneath the earth before a new shoot appears, movement and evolution may rumble below the surface before making an obvious appearance.

Lewis Richmond, 2/2/12

Buddhist writer and teacher

Ever since the movie Groundhog Day came out in the early '90s, many people, especially Buddhists, feel that the movie holds some kind of profound, existential message concerning spiritual practice and the spiritual path.

Gretchen Rubin, 2/2/12

Writer, The Happiness Project

Cruising around Pinterest (my new toy), I came across this list of Henry Miller's 11 work commandments. I'm astounded by how absolutely apt these commandments are for my own writing practices.

Olivia Rosewood, 2/2/12

Meditation Counselor, Yoga Teacher, Writer

What I didn't realize until well into my studies is that acupuncture is Taoist medicine. I had no idea that this effective medicine had sprung from meditation and qi cultivating techniques that draw upon imagery from nature and seek to restore balance to the human being, as well as to the universe.