Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, past-life memories have fascinated ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

Many events will foreshadow what you’ll become, but the beauty of life is that you’ll never know which events these are until later. Since I was six, my parents enrolled me in camp every summer or ...

“That which does not kill us outright makes us stronger,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche more than 100 years ago. As a psychotherapist for 20 years, I’ve seen clients bear this out many times. “I wasn’t ...

When Melissa Johnson found herself repeatedly replaying an embarrassing work presentation from three years ago, she didn’t realize this mental habit was feeding her growing anxiety. Like millions of ...

“Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a ...

In a way, all of us are time travelers. If we just pause and close our eyes we can wander back to our first kiss...our first breakup...that grandparent we should have visited...the summer that went on ...