Thoughts and tips to take care of your emotional life.
A wellness app that makes you feel guilty when you don't open it is like a fitness coach who yells at you when you're tired.
This little social lie seems harmless. But when we repeat it over and over, it creates distance — with others, and with ourselves.
It's not that we don't love each other. It's that we never learned to talk about what we feel without it becoming a reproach.
When all your stability rests on one thing, you don't lose a pillar. You lose the ground.
We ask 'are you okay?' every day. But 'are we okay, us?' — that question, we avoid it.
We fight over dishes. But dishes are never really the problem.
The problem isn't that you have nothing to say. It's that a blank page might not be the right format for you.
You call it attention. They call it surveillance. You're both right.