Cooking, I believed well into my 20s, was a feminine activity. It was a chore that traditional women were forced to do and one my strong feminist spirit rejected wholly.

Everyone stuck in old habits is facing these universal challenges.

The simplest path to peace

These most unlikely mental and physical habits boost happiness in the most profound ways.

Recently, life felt like a speed train that I was sprinting to catch.

I was 15 when I tried to commit suicide. Obviously I failed.

I have, like many others, endlessly sought three states of mind believing that's where happiness lies.

For seven years the shocks absorbed by my joints as I ran faster and longer, the friction of bone wearing down cartilage, the tears in the muscles as I pushed, lifted and pedaled my way to a certain body size are now searing reminders of the aggression wielded by my will