Category: Mental Wellness
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Are We Living in a Just World?
When you experience something unfortunate and eventually reach out to talk about it, you’ll notice a pattern in how people respond. They’ll ask questions that sound like curiosity but feel like interrogation. “Have you tried?” “You should’ve done/I would do xyz!” “What did you do that might have contributed to the situation?” These questions may…
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Do You Know the Secret Meaning of Everyday Objects?
Without even noticing it, we move through static, silent objects every day: a mirror hanging by the door, a clock on the wall, the shoes waiting by the threshold. “Can you pass that salt?” We say to our friends at dinner, without being mindful of it. Yet, across history and cultures, such ordinary objects have…
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Can We Really Date Our Way Out of a Dysfunctional Family?
Most people who are trapped in toxic relationships are not naive or weak. Instead, they might be the most perceptive, emotionally intelligent, and perfectly capable of identifying dysfunction in other people’s lives. The pattern they cannot seem to see is their own. And when they finally do see it, the explanation tends to reach back…
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Ayurveda: How Does It Work, Really?
The insomnia had been getting worse to the point where you couldn’t stay asleep. Waking up at 3 AM with my mind already running, cataloging failures and spinning scenarios for problems that haven’t happened yet. My doctor suggested the usual: sleep hygiene, maybe a low-dose medication. My therapist called it anxiety. Both were probably right,…
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Leaving Small People Where They Are Is the Best Act
Have you ever dealt with someone who’s so small-minded and limited that you don’t even believe what they did was real? You don’t argue because you have identified the problems and decided that they are unable to communicate. But as a human, you still have your own needs in social contexts. Would you rather entangle…
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