Inside the Jan/Feb 2018 Issue

Spirituality & Health's Jan/Feb 2018 issue is now available.

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FEATURES

Finding Joy with Those Who Don't Think Like You The two of us have been digging in to reconcile the differences between us for 15 years. What are we digging into? The thick, rich, confusing soil of the different ways we think, experience , and understand the world. By Angie McArthur and Dawna Markova

The Tao of Chronic Pain Suffering is optional. Here's how to find the teacher inside. By Beth Darnall, PhD

When Guilt is Good 7 Clues your baggage needs handling. By Victor M. Parachin

3 Best Practices for Future Happiness An Interview with David Desteno "We all want our future self to be happy, so we ask: 'What can I do to relieve this person's suffering?" By Sam Mowe

INNER & OUTER WORLDS

Inner Life: Update your projections; My solo whitewater rafting retreats

Practice: My new diet involves cutting out the violence; Best books of 2017

Enlightened Diet: Foods that douse the flames of inflammation

Healthy Body: Healing neck and shoulder pain; Is your yoga class a Stanley Milgram experiment?

Relationships: Finding abundance in having less; Everything happens for a reason

COLUMNISTS

Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler: Am I morally bound to chastise meat eaters? By Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Our Walk in the World: Regret By Mark Nepo

The Happiness Track: The life stories we tell for health By Emma Seppala

The Heart of Money: Time to move abroad? By Paul Sutherland

DEPARTMENTS

Poetry: Naomi Shihab Nye

Toolbox: Writing well

Reviews

• Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan
• I Know How You Feel: The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women's Lives By F. Diane Barth
• The Healing Self: A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life By Deepak Chopra MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi PhD
• Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts By Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski
• Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk by Wadada Leo Smith
• Komitas: See Songs by Lusine Grigoryan
• Wondervilles by Adam Bauer
• Jane by Brett Morgen
• Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
• One of Us by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

The Commons: How to spend a gap year

Five Questions: Flora Bowley

Journey to Renewal

FEATURES

Mountainside Serenity by Mary Bemis

What is Transformational Travel? By Martine Bury

Seaside Retreats by Mary Bemis

Volunteer Vacations by Becca Hensley

Awakening at the Sunrise Suite by Perry Garfinkel

THE ART OF TRAVEL

Transform the Way You Travel by Marth Honey PhD

The Ultimate Adventure by Becca Hensley

Breaking Borders by Kevin Raub