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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
Softness & Surrender As Antidotes to Stress
In the Christmas wind down, I wound up. As work slowed, everything else accelerated. Decorating, gifting, hosting, making the magic as ever. Mary Yuletide Poppins I became! Loving it! Giving gives me joy. But this year, the universe sprinkled a couple of curveballs onto the festivities. Twice, yes twice, I woke to a flooded kitchen. Twice. Two separate burst pipes, two separate areas of the kitchen, two separate days, two different destructive burst pipes. And for extra seasonal sizzle, dear Unipops planned both incidents the day before I was hosting my annual feasts for 20 or so people. One on the very day guests were flying in from over seas and pilgrimaging down from Britain’s North to stay with me. On the actual day we had no running water, no heating, destroyed furniture and rafts of workmen carving up carpets and floorboards upstairs trying to locate the leaks. Curve balls indeedrusty old bucket
By Bianca Bestabout a year ago in Psyche
I Asked 100 Strangers What They Regret Most. The Answer Will Surprise You.
Last month, standing in line at Starbucks, I overheard this old guy telling a friend: “My biggest regret is not marrying the wrong person. That’s obviously embarrassing Who it’s not asking out is the right one.”
By Neli Ivanovaabout a year ago in Psyche
A Message to The Villain: Flood the world with light. Content Warning.
I wish I could put the world into a snow globe. Water and glycerin so I could make it all happen ploddingly. All the evil so I could rub it away, it’ll be my genie. I would wish for the thought of killing to turn into legends, myths and tales. Events would pause in words, and would only go on when you turn the page.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Psyche
How a Toxic Workplace Can Affect Your Mental Health
We spend more waking hours at work than any other place, outweighing cherished time with our loved ones, experiencing new activities, or running household errands. According to research, ⅓ of our lives are spent working, an average of 90,000 hours over a lifetime.
By Caren Sainzabout a year ago in Psyche
it’s okay to disappear
Ghosting everyone because you’re lost inside yourself—and why that doesn’t make you a bad friend. There are seasons in life when you suddenly find yourself slipping away from everyone. Not out of spite, not because you stopped caring, but simply because you don’t know what’s happening inside you anymore.
By Zakir Ullahabout a year ago in Psyche
Why You're Burning Out: The Hidden Cognitive Factors That Are Draining You
When we hear the word "burnout," our first instinct often is that it's about working too hard or being overwhelmed with too many tasks. But burnout doesn’t always result from doing too much. In fact, sometimes burnout happens because the task you’re working on stops adapting to your cognitive needs. It’s not about adding more breaks to your schedule; it’s about addressing a mismatch between your mental system and the task you're facing.
By Nikesh Lagunabout a year ago in Psyche
