Heart Spaces

Searching for a deeper understanding of what makes a place sacred.

Is Love a Solution?

Is our capacity for compassion and kindness enough to resist the ‘dark psychic force’ threatening us?

Awakening the Wisdom of Grandmothering

"She never set foot in a school and could neither read nor write. She sat with people as they entered the world and as they left it. As I am writing about her to you, she becomes alive again."

Our Walk in the World: Fitting Things Together

The word art comes from the Latin ars, which means craft or skill. But what kind of skill? If we look further, the word’s Indo-European root means to fit together. At the heart of …

Recipes: Sushi Surprise

Tokyo-based chef IINA creates edible, vegan art for an adventurous, vegetable-loving palate.

3 Ways to Stay on the Spiritual Path

Inner transformation coach Patti Montella shares three practices for overcoming busyness and staying the course.

Get Unstuck

Want to recover creative flow? Adapt a service mentality.

Trauma Shake

Mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. James S. Gordon shares a technique to shake loose trauma from the body.

The Making of a Peacemaker

In his new book Walking Through Anger, Christian Conte describes a clear and simple path to inner and outer-peace using what he calls Yield Theory. Proven in prisons, this practice works—if you choose to live it.

Against Intuition

Does your gut tell you not to trust your gut? Maybe you should listen.

Overcoming Polarization

We all have a tendency to divide things into categories: “us” and “them,” “right” and “wrong,” “worthy” and “unworthy.”

Eat Well, Laugh a Lot

Mark Hyman and Mia Lux are trying to make people healthier—body and soul.

Featured Artist: Estée Preda

S&H editor Ben Nussbaum talked with this issue’s featured artist, Estée Preda, about winters in Québec, her past life filming snowboarding movies, and much more.

re/VIEW: Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is a celebrated poet, anthologist, and novelist. S&H speaks with her about her life, her work, and her faith.

From the Editor

The letter from the editor kicks off each issue and helps set the tone for the magazine. Over the next six issues, members of the S&H team will be writing the letter. This issue’s writer, Kalia Kelmenson, is our editorial director and resident book lover, surfer, and mind-body explorer.

Film Review: Fantastic Fungi

Louie Schwartzberg’s documentary is a dreamy, informative, and hopeful dive into the world of mushrooms and fungi

Film Review: The Sweet Requiem

The Sweet Requiem is an admirable, sometimes surprising look at the tragedy of displacement, both the geographic and the psychological kind.

Book Review: Walking Through Anger

Conte’s approach hinges on the principle of Yield Theory: the idea that anger is best defused when we meet other people where they are, as opposed to where we would like them to be.

Book Review: Good Habits, Bad Habits

Habits are different from conscious decisions, so when we rely on conscious thought processes like goal setting to change behavior, we’re setting ourselves up for failure.

Music Review: Bon Iver

Bon Iver completes its quarter of albums corresponding to the four seasons with a "contemplative mood befitting a group of songs that collectively represent autumn."

Book Review: The Power of Heart

Reason and intellect are great, but when you feel like giving up, heart matters, according to Dr. Amy Bloch.