All loss begins a process of transition. Knowing how to navigate these transitions is key to creating a bigger, better next chapter.

We all face multiple, major transitions throughout our lives. They can be delightful, or they can be wrenching. Sometimes, they are both. Here’s how to survive the passage.

Civility suffers in a fast-moving, perpetually preoccupied and self-centered society. In fact, civility cannot exist alongside narcissism: the two are mutually exclusive. And ours is a painfully, often obscenely narcissistic culture.