After Studying Autism for More than 20 Years, This Researcher Says These Two Elements Are the Key to Innovative and Effective Problem-Solving

For the past 12 years, a dear friend and I have made a pact to spend a week or two during the summer taking classes or participating in something that has impact and can help us better understand the world we live in with an eye toward making it a better place. One of the

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The Power of ‘Red Threads’ and Discovering Activities You Can Get Lost In

Before you do something, love feels like instinctively wanting to do it. While you are doing something, love feels different. It feels like time speeding up. Have you ever noticed how this feeling called “love” does something strange to this reality called “time?” How, when you are in love with someone, time seems to both

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Finding Your Voice: Advocating and Negotiating for Yourself as a Woman in the Workplace

One of my favorite peers is a woman who has, for the life of her career, been on the CEO trajectory. She is confident, smart, caring and amazingly driven. No matter the setbacks life has thrown her way, she has achieved incredible success and earned respect and admiration from everyone she’s worked with.  She called

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Healing from Shame: How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Doing It All Wrong

“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgement. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.” ~Brené Brown There is a special type of shame that activates within me when I am

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