When we look deep inside ourselves, we often encounter fun house mirrors. Self-knowledge is in part seeing the distortions they cause.

People whose lives revolve around “what if” lose the present and the future.

Teenagers are worried about their reliance on AI chatbots.

Not all of us are regarded as reliable sources of information about ourselves.

What does it mean to be sober or in recovery?

We tend to shrink ourselves and our world when we lack self-respect.

Fears often overrule deliberation and forethought.

People in long term recovery can generate challenges to their own sobriety. There are six challenges that we ourselves create but can overcome.

Feeling empty makes it much harder to care for anything or feel any joy.

The ability to place a bet—any time and any place—courts ruin for some people.