American farmers are dying by suicide, eco-anxiety is on the rise, and corporate agribusiness is at the center of this growing mental health crisis. For generations, and with great pride, family farmers have tended the same land their great-great-grandparents did, producing healthy foods and taking care of the environment by being good stewards of their [...]

There is well-documented psychological behavior known as the “backfire effect.” The backfire effect is when our deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, which in turn make us more set in our ways. I have experienced this a few times in class myself. I do find myself pushing against the need to qualify a difference [...]

“Your personality type is: INFJ.” I remember the first time I took an online personality test. I was in my teens and therefore immersed in an unforgiving cycle of continuously questioning my identity and purpose in life. Instead of turning to a few lengthy sessions of self-reflection or having any degree of faith in fate, [...]