Steve Cole
Community and Connection in Recovery
In the late 1970s, psychologist Bruce Alexander conducted an experiment that would quietly revolutionize our understanding of addiction. He built Rat Park — a spacious, stimulating environment with tunnels, platforms, wheels, cedar shavings, and other rats to socialize with.
The Master Anti-Inflammation Protocol
Inflammation is fire. And like fire, it has two faces.
Inflammation: The Fire Inside (Understanding Your Body's Alarm System)
Think of inflammation as fire. Acute inflammation is a controlled campfire — purposeful, contained, and essential for survival.
Longevity Mindset: How Consciousness Practices Are the Most Evidence-Based Anti-Aging Interventions
In 1979, Ellen Langer, a social psychologist at Harvard, conducted one of the most extraordinary experiments in the history of aging research. She recruited eight men in their late seventies and brought them to a converted monastery in New Hampshire that had been retrofitted to replicate 1959 —...
Meaning-Making and Existential Psychology
Viktor Frankl was thirty-nine years old when the Nazis deported him to Auschwitz. His father had already died at Theresienstadt.
Positive Psychology and the Science of Flourishing
Martin Seligman spent the first half of his career studying depression. In the late 1960s, working with dogs exposed to inescapable electric shocks, he discovered something devastating: when the animals later had a clear escape route, most didn't even try.