psychology
Studying the complexities of the human mind and its many functions and behaviors.
Stop Policing How Disabled People Set Boundaries
There's a funny thing that happens when you write openly about disability, ableism, and the emotional labor we're constantly asked to perform: people who are new to disability sometimes react like you've personally set their house on fire.
By Tracy Stine11 days ago in Longevity
The Weather You Bring Into the Next Room
At 8:17 in the morning, a message arrives. Three lines, maybe four. Something about a deadline that was supposed to be understood rather than stated; something about competence, implied rather than said. It takes eleven seconds to read and about three minutes to answer, tersely, and then the day resumes — coffee, commute, the first meeting.
By Khali Sollis13 days ago in Longevity
What If Prayer Works Even When Nobody Is Listening?
Here is a thought experiment I can't stop turning over. Two people are chasing the same hard goal — save money for six months straight, stick with a punishing training block, get through a brutal job search without quitting. Both are given the exact same instructions: do X, then Y, then Z, consistently, and don't stop when it gets hard.
By Khali Sollis20 days ago in Longevity
What the Mind Practices, the Mind Becomes
There is a particular kind of stillness that used to be unremarkable. Someone sits down with a book, or a task, or simply their own thoughts, and nothing else happens for a while. No prompt arrives to interrupt it. No notification arbitrates whether the stillness continues. It simply runs its course.
By Khali Sollisabout a month ago in Longevity
What Happens Between Wanting Something and Working for It
There's a particular kind of confusion that shows up somewhere in the middle of a hard project. Not at the beginning, when the goal is still an idea, and not at the end, when it's either finished or abandoned. It shows up in the middle, when the work has gotten harder than you expected and the reward is still out of reach, and you notice — almost as a bystander — that you don't want to keep going, even though you still want the outcome.
By Khali Sollisabout a month ago in Longevity
The Cost of Staying Strong
There is a particular kind of compliment that people who endure difficult things learn to expect. I don't know how you do it. You're so strong. I could never handle what you handle. It is offered with admiration, and it is usually received with something like pride. But underneath that pride, if you sit with it long enough, there is often a quieter, less comfortable question: what would happen if I stopped?
By Khali Sollisabout a month ago in Longevity
When Your Problem Is Your Body Working Correctly
Written by a human, for humans, always. Have you ever had a problem... Where you are looking for what is going wrong... But you simply cannot find anything that seems to be broken?
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a month ago in Longevity
