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 ...

Many events will foreshadow what you’ll become, but the beauty of life is that you’ll never know which events these are until later. Since I was six, my parents enrolled me in camp every summer or ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Jason had been dating Nadia for four months, and everything seemed to be going well, except that Jason could not get it out of his head that Nadia had been intimate with other men in the past. Even ...