All posts by: Amy Cummins

What If We’re Looking at Our Limitations All Wrong?

We all face limitations in our lives. Perhaps we’re coping with a broken relationship, experiencing financial struggles, dealing with an illness, or feel stuck in a dead-end job. Perhaps we’re...

The Art of Unlearning: How Do We Know What’s False?

In his book Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes, “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” Considering that I love this season’s off-the-shoulder tops and chokers as...

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day! For many Americans, the first Monday of September marks the end of summer, the start of school, and a much-anticipated day away from the office. It’s a...

Celebrate Your Beauty

There’s something about wearing a swimsuit in public that brings out insecurities we didn’t even realize we had – a phenomenon I witnessed firsthand on vacation in the Caribbean a...

Creating An Environment of Authenticity

Whether we’re chatting with a stranger or hanging out with our bestie, one of the beautiful things about human relationships is that different people bring out different aspects of ourselves....

How to Tell If You’re Content or Complacent

Let’s think for a moment about the last time each of us experienced pure contentment in our lives. Chances are, scenes from our respective “highlight reels” are materializing: laughing with...

How to Cultivate Inner Beauty in Seasons of Monotony

When we look back at our lives, it’s often astonishing to see how much things change over time. Even when our schedules and situations seem the same from week to...

10 Unexpected Ways to Stay Healthy This Summer

We often think of health in terms of diet and exercise, but there is so much more that goes into our well-being than what we eat and how we treat...

10 Things to Tell Your Mom This Mother’s Day

I think we can all agree that the older we get the more we realize just how much our mothers had to put up with while raising us. From chauffeuring...

How Imperfect People Can Do Great Things

Whether we wish we could serve the poor and alleviate suffering like Mother Teresa or pioneer critical scientific research like Marie Curie, we all dream of doing beautiful, world-changing things...