Category: Culture
Healing from Difficult Breakups
My latest essay describes simple ways to activate your parasympathetic nervous system to support the process of healing from a breakup: “Studies of fMRI scans show that breakups affect the same areas of the brain associated with drug addiction and withdrawal....
The Controversy Over My Cutoff Essay
Update: Please read Shining Light on Internet Rage. There’s also now: How to Respond to Internet Rage (Observer) and Here’s How We Can Change Online Commenting Once and for All (Observer). Original Post: I’ve posted a brief response to the...
You’ve got Male: Amazon’s Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene
Welcome: More recent pieces are An Update on the Distribution of Men and Women Dating in Seattle, With Amazon, Men Outnumber Women in Washington State and Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze. See also How Our Success is Ruining Seattle and...
Breakups and Cutoff Culture
Cutting off exes not only hurts our former partners but limits our own growth as well. Most of us don’t blink when a friend says they’ve cut off an ex. But if you’ve ever been cut off by someone you...
Shining Light on Cutoff Culture
[fancy_header3 variation=”blue” textColor=”#000000″]Cutting off exes not only hurts our former partners but limits our own growth as well.[/fancy_header3] Most of us don’t blink when a friend says they’ve cut off an ex. But if you’ve ever been cut off by...