A few months ago, I was listening to a podcast, a conversation between a physician author and another writer who’d just published a book about creating a meaningful, purposeful life. This physician author is a big name these days – he’s by all traditional, professional measures wildly successful, with a whole host of accomplishments and even some fame. Yet, as...| TARA MOHR
There’s a word that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: longing. I think it’s an incredibly important word, one that we don’t use or talk about enough. Longing is, according to one official definition, a prolonged unfulfilled desire. Do you know any humans that live without prolonged unfulfilled desires? I do not. Longing for more success, longing for a...| TARA MOHR
Since the early days of my work over ten years ago, I’ve generally been an advocate of us all doing less giving advice and less asking for advice. Women—as well as others in our society with less power because of some aspect of their identity—are ceaselessly given advice by our family members, friends, by the culture, the experts. Far less frequently...| TARA MOHR
There’s an ancient rabbinic commentary that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Two rabbis, great sages, are arguing about how one should comfort a friend in distress. One rabbi argues that a person should simply be with the friend in their distress, listening to them, letting them cry, not trying to change a thing. The other rabbi says, in...| TARA MOHR
Recently I was thinking about questions we can ask ourselves when we are in a difficult situation, or when we’re going through a difficult time. After all these years of journaling, and of working in a coaching approach, I am a big fan of paying serious attention to what questions we are asking each other and ourselves. Our questions determine...| TARA MOHR