How to revive hair that thins, grays or gets out of control as you age
.Story by Sally Wadyka The ways in which hair changes as we age aren’t always welcome. Nor are they entirely within our control. Hormonal shifts — which affect women more…
Black girls’ identity development and the protective role of parental socialization in educational settings
by Kimberly Phillips Several years ago, when Marketa Burnett asked the young Black girls who were part of her research study to talk about what it meant first to be…
Which Black Church Leaders Are More Likely to Suffer?
What makes a leader vulnerable and what can help? by Eric M. Brown PhD KEY POINTS The disproportionate amount of deaths in the Black community, combined with the viral videos…
Blotting Out the Sun: A Cosmic Coincidence
Geometry makes the moon and sun appear to be the same size. by Bernard D. Beitman M.D. KEY POINTS A majority of synchronicities involve a psychological event mirroring an external…
How Feelings Can Change Our Memories
by Caroline Leavitt The truth of a memory isn’t as important as the truth of the feelings behind it. KEY POINTS I admit I can obsess about seemingly terrible things…
7 Factors to Consider for Making Better Decisions
Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. How can we improve well-being with good decision-making? KEY POINTS Good decision-making requires weighing the value of immediate rewards versus delayed rewards. For instance, would we prefer…
What if the Person You Need to Set Boundaries With Is Yourself?
by Jennifer Gerlach LCSW It’s more about self-love than self-control. KEY POINTS A lady used to tell me the worst things. She would shout my fears as I tried to…
How to Become a More Positive Thinker
by Monica Vermani C. Psych. Try this step-by-step process for cleaning up your negative thoughts. KEY POINTS Everything ever imagined, created, or achieved was first thought. Positive or negative thoughts…
Our Five Inborn Hungers
by Alphonsus Obayuwana M.D., Ph.D., CPC The key to understanding humanity. KEY POINTS If you allow me to define hunger as a compelling desire, it could then be said that…
Black men face many more health hurdles
An expert discusses why. Story by Steven Petrow Black men face many more health hurdles. Social epidemiologist Roland Thorpe Jr. is on a double mission: to improve the health and…