Amber Tucker

I read a quote recently that spoke to me, and to a key idea in this edition of Mindful: “We do not have to live as if we are alone.” (That’s writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry, quoted in writer and teacher Sebene Selassie’s Substack newsletter, Remind Me to Love.) I know I’m not the only person who feels alone, sometimes, in long hours hunkered over a desk, grasping for a sense of gosh-darn interconnectedness.

Marc Brackett – Celadon Books In his first book, Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett—who teaches at the Yale Child Study Center and is founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—gave readers tools for building emotional intelligence. In Dealing with Feeling, he dives into the subject of emotion regulation: what it actually is (and isn’t), how the ability to regulate emotion steers the course of our life, and how anyone can learn this skill.

In the chronically-online world of 2025, it’s almost impossible to avoid the saturating presence of podcasters, pundits, and social-media influencers in the “manosphere”—people who promise men admiration, health, and success, but who often have ideas of masculinity that leave men feeling even more wounded and isolated.