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. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, past-life memories have fascinated ...

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 ...

Whether I’m eating a favorite childhood meal or watching an old movie, I’m a big fan of visiting the past. I love to remember simpler times when I had fewer responsibilities. It’s nice (and even ...

“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 ...

People often think they can’t change their past, but I disagree. Perhaps we can’t change every mistake in our past, but we have to remember that the past is a moving target. Every day that goes by us ...

“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 ...

In a way, all of us are time travelers. If we just pause and close our eyes we can wander back to our first kiss...our first breakup...that grandparent we should have visited...the summer that went on ...

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 ...