Shireen Rizvi is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-authored the book Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Overcoming Stress, Emotions, and Relationships. Jesse Finkelstein/Sonya Barlas/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jesse Finkelstein/Sonya Barlas/NPR Think about the last time you were distressed. How did you cope with it? Have you taken
YYou might call it the saddest of midlife crises, but as I turned 40 last year, I decided to dedicate myself to a long-neglected ambition – learning guitar. I set myself the task of dutifully practicing 30 minutes a day, with the aim of making my way through the Bob Dylan songbook by my 41st
Premium motorcycles used to be easy to identify, but this clarity has faded as technology and refinement have spread across the market. What once required a flagship budget can now be found on far more attainable machines, changing the way riders judge value. As manufacturing improves and competition intensifies, the gap between mid-priced and high-end
Before the sun came up, after her children were asleep, Toni Morrison got out of bed, walked over to her desk and began writing. Stephen King wrote on a child’s small desk in a trailer. In the basement of the Powell Library, Ray Bradbury inserted coins into a typewriter to write Fahrenheit 451. These routines
If you ride a motorcycle long enough, someone will inevitably ask you, “What’s the fastest you’ve ever gone?”, usually with a strange look of joy in their eyes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked this question, but it’s a lot. The strange thing is that when I answer I don’t feel