We live in the now, so why does our past matter? We never want to dwell on it. I mean, that’s where all the bad things are, right? The heartbreaks, the mistakes you made, the things you can't change.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, past-life memories have ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

When Melissa Johnson found herself repeatedly replaying an embarrassing work presentation from three years ago, she didn’t realize this mental habit was feeding her growing anxiety. Like millions of ...

“Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a ...

“That which does not kill us outright makes us stronger,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche more than 100 years ago. As a psychotherapist for 20 years, I’ve seen clients bear this out many times. “I wasn’t ...

Ann’s father suddenly died when she was 12, and now as an adult she is understandably hypersensitive to potential losses in her adult life. When her partner seems withdrawn, she automatically worries ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...