Toxic positivity isn’t optimism. It’s denial. Historian Kate Bowler explains why our obsession with “good vibes only” is making it harder to cope.

Happiness collapses the moment hardship arrives. Joy doesn’t. Historian Kate Bowler explains why joy can coexist with pain — and why that makes it a stronger, more fulfilling emotion.

In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.

If you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:

Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.

“Anxiety is focused on things that are important to you in life. That is the key.”

The New York Times bestselling author and founder of Going With Grace shares how close confrontations with death inspired her to change her life.

How can "you" move on when the old "you" is gone?

People often say, "Let go," or, "Don't take things to heart." But where's the line with this philosophy?

Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.

Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.

Grief never ends. There is no closure, but there are things we can do to mitigate the feeling of loss.

AI programs like ChatGPT can create "thanabots" based on deceased loved ones' digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.

Lean, green, and serene.

You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them.

Astronomer Michelle Thaller explains the healing power of physics after losing her husband.

You could become plant food.

There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.

If you don't mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.

Queen Elizabeth II has died. How is this loss different from that of a loved one?

NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.

More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.

What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.

A growing body of research shows that religious people seem to enjoy more psychological well-being compared to others.

The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.

The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.