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  • Boredom Actually Exists for a Reason
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    Boredom Actually Exists for a Reason

    There is a specific discomfort that comes with having nothing to do. Not tiredness or sadness, but something closer to restlessness. Instinctively, we reach for the phone, scroll on social media, scan the room to spot untidiness, put something on in the background, or find a task. If someone asked about it, we would say,…

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  • Those Important Life Lessons Trauma Teaches Us
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    Those Important Life Lessons Trauma Teaches Us

    As survivors, we move through stages of recovery and eventually arrive at a place where we can become our own harshest enemy. Unfair as it is, there also seems to be a persistent cultural instinct to treat trauma as a flaw, a deficit to be corrected, a shameful chapter to close. Or, the experience is…

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  • Why Do Our Memories Actually Reflect the Present?
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    Why Do Our Memories Actually Reflect the Present?

    There’s a version of my past I’ve told so many times it feels like a fact. The details are consistent. The emotional logic holds. I know exactly where the turning points are, which moments were formative, which ones I’d rather not examine too closely. It feels like evidence of cringeness. Yet the record of something…

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  • Literally Every Generation Thinks The Older Times Are Better
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    Literally Every Generation Thinks The Older Times Are Better

    The current wave of nostalgia feels intense. Yet a less flattering description is a picture of the past that selectively carries our wishes. Facilitating with social media and search engines, vintage items are just one hashtag search away to satisfy the urge. The feeling of nostalgia is also perpetuating every generation. It’s not new. Nor…

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  • Why Sometimes Understanding Is More Helpful Than Actions
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    Why Sometimes Understanding Is More Helpful Than Actions

    This is for someone who truly cares about survivors: When someone is in pain, fear, or extreme emotional stress, it’s valid that you want to offer concrete help. But the instinct to edit the uncomfortable reality around you when seeing someone suffer is not always helpful. Offer a solution, reframe the situation, point toward what’s…

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