It’s something like making a pact with the Devil. When we self-indulge, we obtain the object of our desire up front—whether it’s some glorious “high” (think cocaine, really good New York cheesecake, ...

In her 1988 book "A Burst of Light," Audre Lorde famously wrote, "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."* As the seemingly ...

Self-care is not a self-indulgent luxury—it is an essential strategy for thriving in a demanding profession like law, Jennifer Kupferman writes. In the fast-paced world of New York law, the concept of ...

Being deprived of something isn’t a permanent end point, a death from which you never recover. It’s the opposite. How do you fight the lie that deprivation equals death when you’re not even aware of ...

During the past half century, Americans have gradually been shifting their priorities from individual responsibility toward self indulgence. Some of us have unconsciously adopted instant gratification ...