I recently had the opportunity to visit a locally-owned, coffee shop called Sacred Grounds in upstate New York. Sure, I could have stopped at that famously-named coffee shop along the way, but I didn’t. I shopped locally. Why? For several reasons. By Amy Considine OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2010 CONDUCIVE Firstly, it’s new in our community and I [...]

There once was a time when buying your food was as simple as walking into your local market and choosing what kind of food you wanted. That time was, believe it or not, less than twenty years ago. Today, it’s necessary to pick out not just the kind of food, but the way it was [...]

Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on how to deal with a friend who passes the blame for her own theft.

Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school.

Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one’s parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job.

Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively.

Are you suffering from unemployment depression? You are not alone, but variables such as cultural differences and access to insurance can influence who decides to seek out help. Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers her professional advice and lays out what resources are available.

Conducive advice columunist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on dating a separated person.

Conducive editor Sarah Edith Jones writes about her determination to get an accurate medical diagnosis after more than a decade of doctor visits and medical misdiagnosis. For years her epilepsy was seen as panic attacks, menstrual issues, migraines, stress, low-glucose, anxiety, and depression, and treated with medications such as birth control pills and anti-depressants. In [...]

How can you deal with sexual harassment at work? Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan suggests you go “Kabuki” and be a woman worker warrior.

Conducive’s new columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on overcoming setbacks and meeting new goals in the New Year.

Conducive columnist Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan answers a question from an environmentalist who worries that she is not doing enough.

Conducive’s new columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner.

New Conducive columnist, Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan, answers a question from a busy community worker who worries how to balance dating and her new career.

Move over Crest Whitening Strips, it’s time to talk about greening our teeth, rather than whitening them. Or, to be more precise, greening our toothpaste. After coming across an article on Grist.com about one family’s attempt to find the tastiest, most environmentally friendly toothpaste on the market, I got curious about how my own toothpaste [...]

So you have a goal in life, a mission, and a strategy. Then you execute it and sail toward complete success. Right? Probably not. At some point stress, exhaustion, and even burnout can bring your project down. But, you can reel it in. Hillary Rettig argues that what prevents ambitious and idealistic people from achieving [...]

Conducive sounds off with Hillary Rettig, author of The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way. This straightforward and concise text teaches you how to overcome your fears and blocks to live a happy and productive life with a progressive mission. Rettig is a writing teacher and productivity/career coach helping activists, [...]

Fighting for progressive social change can be very satisfying, pushing toward a greater vision of what we can be. But it can also be incredibly frustrating. The struggle can involve matters incredibly important to you that other people just don’t understand, and the work can be long, arduous, and sometimes fruitless, as the battle is [...]