by justinehardy | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
Autonomy and Control—and our human need for both It’s interesting thinking about autonomy, sitting here now, in Kashmir, the whole valley curfewed, everyone confined, shut in, locked down. And it was another version of interesting when flying out of the...
by justinehardy | May 18, 2016 | Blog
‘Good-bye’ – to anyone who is graduating You’re there, that place that glimmered so far in the future that it was almost impossible to imagine. Do you remember arriving, that freshman moment when you first saw all those seniors? They seemed so...
by justinehardy | May 14, 2016 | Blog
The Power of Negative Thinking…because it’s the result of millions of years of evolution… Take a day, any day. Ten good things might happen. Perhaps these aren’t big deal good things, but they are ten things that create a sense of...
by justinehardy | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog
Rejection ‘No!’. This is not a word that we are particularly good at using well. And it’s not the one we want to hear, at least most of the time. Of course there are the times when we skew a question because we actually want to get a...
by justinehardy | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
Numb or Raw – the pain of feeling nothing or everything It was an odd argument, except that it wasn’t one—it probably just sounded that way—animated, two bodies leaning in towards each other, engaged, buzzing, hands waving, freighted silences...
by justinehardy | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
The Divided Self – the inner civil war that we wage Just to clear up an important point, by divided I don’t mean those mental agonies that gets whacked with labels beginning with bi-, split-, schiz- or borderline-something-or-other. I want to look at...
