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Cowboying Up Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Vulnerable
March 28, 2022

Western men and women often evince the "I don't need nobody to care for me" look but all they really want is to feel connection. A new column about toughness by psychotherapist Timothy Tate
Read MoreWhy Do We Run Away?
August 23, 2021 // Community Change, Culture, Growth

Maybe the only hope we have to stop our towns and wild places from changing is to change our belief that their destruction is inevitable. But, as Timothy Tate writes, it's almost impossible to do
Read MoreIn The Bull's Eye: A Human Swarm Is Overwhelming The Yellowstone Region
July 20, 2021

Amid unprecedented development and outdoor recreation pressure, three experts say new strategies urgently needed to save America's most famous wildlife ecosystem
Read MoreTate: Growth Is Rapidly Changing Our Communities And We Do Not Feel Fine
July 12, 2021

By day he is a practicing therapist; for 40 years he's been a citizen in Bozeman. Timothy Tate sees many Greater Yellowstone towns losing their identity
Read MoreHow Do We Lift Our Mental Spirits?
June 3, 2021

Timothy Tate writes about society's reluctance to prioritize mental health as a major public concern. Ironically, the challenge exists in a region filled with nature's healing abundance
Read More'To Reach The Spring' Is A Wake Up Call For Ecosystem And Planet
April 15, 2021

Charlie Quimby reviews Nathaniel Popkin's thought-provoking new book which asks: How and why are we programmed to gluttonously consume Earth's resources, including wildness?
Read MoreThe Grounding Ways Of Rituals In Nature
April 6, 2021

We've all been squeezed into tinier mental spaces by Covid. Timothy Tate says we can find center again by letting ourselves be vulnerable to quiet re-connection
Read MoreWhen Wild Nature Enters Our Dreams
February 28, 2021

From visions to daydreams to the imagery that visits us in slumber, dreamscapes can reveal much about ourselves and how we're navigating the world
Read MoreExploring The Causes Of Groupthink
February 5, 2021

Timothy Tate: What happened at the US Capitol is symptomatic of social anxieties that pervade politics and environmental issues, too
Read MoreAfter A Surreal Year Like This, How Do We Center Ourselves Again?
November 26, 2020

For many, Timothy Tate says, gaining '2020 vision' has been traumatic. Let this holiday stretch bring reflection. The best gift you can give: listening
Read MoreAmerican Shadowland: How Do We Stop The New Uncivil War?
September 24, 2020

As two Americas protest against each other, Timothy Tate in this op-ed says the only remedy is to confront the national shadow we've created. And it starts with each of us looking inward at ourselves
Read MoreWhat Does 'Last Best Place' Mean in 2020?
August 20, 2020

Timothy Tate suspects that the famed phrase, coined for Montana by Bill Kittredge and Annick Smith, stands for values now under siege
Read MoreOn Getting Unrattled
May 22, 2020

A psychotherapist confesses his own Covid-19 worries, when even the legendary Mother's Day fly fishing hatch on the Yellowstone River brings no relief
Read More'Unbroken Wilderness:' Some Call The Porcupine And Buffalo Horn 'Holy Land'
May 14, 2020

As animal highways important to Yellowstone Park, Bart Koehler says they are also the Gallatins' beating wild heart—and deserve protection
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