|

When Positive Thinking is Used to Shame Illness

BY KAI ELLIOT If you would’ve told me, ten years ago, that I would have my own website and I’d be writing about Illness Positivity(tm) for the spiritual field – I would have thought you were nuts! When I took my first yoga class, eighteen years ago, I would’ve told you you were nuts –…

|

In Defense of the “Woo-Peddlers”

By Mitch Horowitz   Why is the term “self-help” so often used in a derogatory manner in mainstream media? Writing in the opinion journal Aeon, journalist and social critic Elizabeth Svoboda recently sized up today’s self-help field and concluded that some cognitively based self-help books are effective – and well worth defending – whereas New…