Busting Bubbles (#337)

We are naturally predisposed to protect ourselves and those we care about from physical or emotional harm. That's not always the right choice.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a Friday Forward called Exposure Therapy. The post focused on the growing tendency to conflate emotional discomfort with physical danger in society today, and how this creates more physical and emotional intolerance.

Exposure Therapy (#331)

I began with an anecdote about how the popular policy of banning all nut products from classrooms, while a well-me…