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Creativity and Consciousness: An Interview with Author Linda Egenes

Linda Egenes is the author of more than 500 articles and six books, and with Kumuda Reddy, M.D., she has co-authored three books on preventive health care, including Super Healthy Kids and For a Blissful

Shared Housing for Women – Why Now?

I met Karen Venable, CEO and Founder of Roommates4Boomers, several years ago at a convention. Roommates4Boomers is a national website that matches baby-boomer generation women who want to share housing. I thought Karen’s idea was

Creating Favorable Conditions in Orlando

In October, just before Hurricane Matthew threatened Orlando, Florida, the organizers of the annual Magnet conference—the most prestigious and highly attended nursing conference in the USA—invited us to speak on the benefits of the TM

Promila Bahadur: Empowering Girls and Women through Computer Literacy

When Promila Bahadur was a child growing up in Lucknow, India, she learned at an early age to help those less fortunate. “One time a servant came to me and asked me for food,” she

Women Artists and the Freedom to Create

This Autumn, the work of women artists will be pervading the art scene from gallery exhibitions to solo shows in museums. Women have always been artists—expressing themselves early on in forms from weaving to ceramics—and

Report from Greek Refugee Camps: An interview of Stacey Hurlin

Anastasia (Stacey) Hurlin is a mother, an educator, an artist, and an activist; in her case, activist means being an unhesitating proactive mother to the world. She has a keen perception of the remarkable good

Anna Bruen: Inner Silence, Multitasking and Sustainable Living

As a child, Anna Bruen had an unusual hero: Rachel Carson, the marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring, the startling treatise that alerted the nation to the dangers of DDT. Now 30, Anna finds herself

TM Works for Social Workers

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams, founder of the social work profession in the

Resort to Consciousness

Every informed adult knows that we are in a serious position right now: US election data reveals a stunning disparity in the philosophy and politics of our nation’s population; the world suffers from an ongoing

Singing the Song of Life

I came from a musical family and had been performing since I was a teenager, and I sang every single day and night. I can’t relate to it now, but I can remember being happy only when I was singing. Outside of singing there were only tiny, tiny moments of happiness. So I had to sing all the time.

When I learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in 1974, I could…