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Ask Dr. Steve: Family role patterns: How childhood roles show up in adult life

Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While each family is different, certain patterns appear repeatedly across diverse backgrounds and ...

The Conversation: Remembering how to play

Children possess a power that can be characterized as unrivaled freedom, and if nurtured by the parents given to them, they can transform from the caterpillar into the butterfly and in return make an impact on the world. The child within us is our true form, which gets suppressed by a society ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Understanding your family script: How change is possible

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family's emotional landscape and secure love, safety and belonging. They helped us make sense of ...

The Conversation: Radical ownership

We live in a world where everything is always someone else’s fault, participation trophies are second nature and we utter subtle whispers of disdain. Ownership of the suit we live in and wear, also called the skin, should be worn with pride and one foot in front of the other because this is ...

Measles detected in Provo wastewater sample, health officials say

The recent rise in measles cases across Utah continues to reveal the virus's impact on Utah Valley. Measles has been detected in the Provo wastewater system, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services warned in a press release Friday afternoon. The wastewater sample was collected on ...

The Conversation: Freedom in the modern world

Freedom (n.) “power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance;” “exemption from arbitrary or despotic control, civil, liberty” — Etymonline.com, 2025 Freedom in its true form is an idea sown in the fabric of the imagination and adopted in the ...

Around Utah: Bornean orangutan Kawan delivers healthy girl at Hogle Zoo

On Saturday, June 21, 2025, Bornean orangutan Kawan (24) gave birth to a healthy female infant at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. She arrived naturally at 9:30 a.m., weighing just over three pounds. Throughout Kawan’s pregnancy, Hogle Zoo prepared for several outcomes, including the possibility that she ...