Dear Abby advises a woman who seems lost in her life after experiencing depression and several health issues. Shutterstock DEAR ABBY: I am a single, 52-year-old woman, never married with no kids. I ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

Most academics don’t become global celebrities. But in 2010, Brené Brown, a longtime professor of social work at the University of Houston, gave a TEDx Talk about her research on shame, empathy and ...

Over the past year, I’ve shared stories of people going through some of the hardest things imaginable. Here are the most unforgettable ones. Warning: This post contains suicidal ideation, child loss, ...

Children have returned to school. Not only is the initial “honeymoon” period over, but so are the hopes that whatever previous social behavioral difficulties they had last spring would have vanished ...

Dear Annie: I’ve recently been diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer. The prognosis isn’t good, but right now I feel OK and haven’t changed my daily life. My husband is here for me, and we are ...