Sometimes the way to help people feel better is to encourage them to feel even worse. For a while, at least. They can’t process their sadness, after all, without being sad. This edition of Doing What Works is one of our favorites, because we don’t pretend it’s easy -- but we do show our work.

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Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race taught me what it means to be a writer.

Donna Mills says aging is not for sissies!

Phil Stutz says he doesn’t think about his Parkinson’s so much as all the work he still wants to do.