Personal Essay

Susan Orlean has a full-on phobia of flying - an epic inconvenience for an author on a national book tour. With her trademark curiosity, she decides to rewire her thinking through hypnosis. Along the way, Susan discovers a lot about the unconscious mind, suggestibility, Mesmer, Freud, today’s cutting-edge treatments, and the dulling power of a sonorous voice. Most of all, she learns what it takes to close her eyes, open them again at thirty thousand feet, and finally be able to exhale. And you can too.

The thesis of “Your Genesis” is that perception is key to change; if you change your perspective, you can change your life. It's a simple but often underrated truth. After a confusing and challenging start to life, the author found this to be the basis for his personal growth and evolution. So, how should we view our life?

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Kids and teens who bully need our support and compassion just as much - if not more at times - than the victims of bullying. If we want bullying to stop, or at least slow down, we need to begin helping them to grow up learning how to interrelate with others without any harassment or manipulation on their part, to fit into society, not doling out meaningless, so called "punishments" that will most likely make their overall attitude even worse.

Seit vielen Jahren werde ich gebeten, ein Buch über Mütter zu schreiben. Das habe ich immer abgelehnt, einfach aufgrund der Tatsache...