Good Clean Reads

One of my regular stops during the week is in the weight room at my local gym. This is a place where I tap into true optimism about humanity. The best days of the week are usually the ones in which I start out early with my new strength- training workout, which I learned from the boys’ athletic trainer at our local high school. Partly, I am inspired by the ways in which, after just a few weeks, I...

We spend up to a third of our lives sleeping and yet the world of sleep, how it works, what happens in our brains while asleep remains a mysterious and compelling aspect of what it is to be human. David Randall, reporter and journalist dives deep into the mystery of sleep after his own sleepwalking adventure and gives us a robust tour of the world inside your head while you are sleeping. Don’t...

David Randall, author of “Dreamland,” shares strategies for dealing with insomnia.

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I have been with the same partner for many years and have tried to make our relationship work, but it seems like the longer I am with him the worse I feel about myself. He makes fun of me when I say what I think and then thinks I am ridiculous because “I can’t take a joke.” We used to have some good conversations but now I can almost never find the right time to talk about anything. I don’t want...

“We’re perfectly ordinary people except that we like kinky sex.” -Susan Wright, spokesperson for National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Sexual freedom is on the rise. Just this past week, several notable Republican law makers came out in favor of the right for marriage equality regardless of gender preferences. The interesting thing about change is how after it is done, we can hardly remember how...

Often what we think will make us happy doesn’t and what we don’t think will make us happy does. Uncover the faulty thinking and the misconceptions about where our true happiness lies with author of the Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky Phd. Her research insights will expand your view of happiness and help you recognize how even challenging life situations can translate into surprising...

“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”  –Tama Kieves

Rejection might well be the source of our greatest fear and anguish and for good reason....

Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, discusses happiness and material reality.

Visit TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview Saturday.