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The Difference Between Cruelty and Correction
Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- Pain Is Not Always Proof of Wrongdoing One of the most damaging confusions in modern relationships is the confusion between cruelty and correction. Cruelty is an act of contempt. Correction is an act of truth. Cruelty aims to belittle, punish, control, shame, or wound. Correction aims to bring reality back into view. The problem is that both can hurt. A cruel statement can hurt because it is vicious. A true correction can hurt because it exposes something that pride, comfort, denial, or fear would rather leave untouched. If the only standard is whether someone felt pain, then cruelty and correction become almost impossible to separate.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Psyche
Men Are Not Afraid of Communication, Though They Are Tired of Punished Honesty
(Credit for inspiration: Emily W King) --- The Silence Is Not Always the Starting Point A common accusation in relationships is that men do not communicate. The complaint is familiar enough that it has become almost automatic. Men shut down. Men avoid hard conversations. Men refuse to open up. Men need to learn how to express themselves. There is truth inside that accusation when a man is careless, passive, immature, or emotionally absent. But the accusation often skips the more important question. What happened the last time he did communicate? What happened the last time he answered honestly, named the real issue, corrected the false assumption, admitted the painful truth, or said plainly what he had been trying not to say?
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Psyche
When Truth Has to Protect Her Feelings
(Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- The Unequal Permission to Be Right There is a quiet double standard inside many modern conversations about relationships. Women are increasingly encouraged to stand on what they know, trust their discernment, speak their truth, hold their boundary, and stop shrinking themselves to keep peace. Men, however, are often given a different command. A man may also be right, but he is expected to find a way to be right that does not make the woman feel hurt, exposed, corrected, dismissed, insecure, embarrassed, or emotionally unsafe. The result is not equality. It is a conditional form of honesty where one person’s truth is allowed to stand directly, while the other person’s truth must first pass through the emotional response of the person receiving it.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Psyche
Does High Emotional Intelligence Make You More Miserable?
Written by a human, for humans, always. --- I was reading an article by a psychologist whose writings have been interesting to read.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM5 months ago in Psyche
Created Risk, Inherited Risk, and the Moral Line We Keep Erasing (A Society That Tells the Truth: Chapter 3)
The Distinction Modern Rules Refuse to Make One of the quiet failures of modern rule making is the refusal to clearly distinguish between risk created by choice and risk inherited by existence. When this distinction collapses, responsibility becomes confused, guilt spreads outward indiscriminately, and ordinary behavior is treated as morally suspect. This is not a minor philosophical oversight. It is the foundation beneath many of the injustices people now experience in public life, from transportation and health policy to everyday regulation and enforcement. When systems fail to differentiate between what someone causes and what simply exists, moral clarity erodes at every level.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Psyche
How Nature Saved My Life: Part Two
A few quick notes before we begin. This is part two of an ongoing story, so if you haven’t read part one, it might be helpful to go back and do so. This series is an ongoing story of how nature, druidry, and witchcraft helped pull me out of a mental health crisis and make me who I am today.
By Alys Revna5 months ago in Psyche
The Mental Health Cost of The Cost Of Living Crisis
If only some piggy banks were this pretty. Some may not exist, while others would be smashed open into a difficult puzzle that cannot be put back together again. Sentimentality smashed like a Pinata by a bunch of sugar loaded little munchkins at a kids Birthday party. Beyond things being expensive (more so than ever, not sugarcoating this); the mental health ramifications of this prolonged cost of living crisis where sh!t is ever so real - where relief from such feels far fetched for some souls having to embrace this experience or adventure has to be talked about. Not swept under the rug. Even if your finances are not taking a back seat and you are doing just fine, that is amazing; yet in some way, shape or form it is fair to purport that the prolonged cost of living crisis and inflationary pressures are affecting the psyche and mental spirit of each and every pers0n.
By Justine Crowley5 months ago in Psyche
The Lantern of Silent Valley
Far beyond the edge of crowded cities, where maps begin to fade into blank paper, there was a place called Silent Valley. No one agreed on whether it was real or just a story people told to feel less alone at night. But everyone who had ever heard of it knew one thing: if you entered Silent Valley with a heavy heart, you never came out the same.
By Vincent Hale5 months ago in Psyche
Boundaries Changed My Friendships - Here’s Why. Content Warning.
2025 changed me. Not in the Instagram “I’m healing” type of way, but in a real, uncomfortable “I’m not tolerating certain things anymore” type of way. I’ve been learning how to set boundaries in my friendships and I’m not gonna lie… It’s been causing problems because people aren’t adjusting… and that’s when it hit me.
By Nathea Richardson5 months ago in Psyche
The Quiet Recession Nobody Is Measuring: Why Adults Are Losing the Ability to Make Friends
Nobody writes obituaries for friendships. When a relationship ends — a romantic partnership, a business partnership — there are cultural scripts for acknowledgment, grieving, and recovery. But when a friendship simply dissolves over months or years, fading from regular contact to occasional birthday texts to nothing at all, there is no funeral, no仪式, and remarkably little discussion of the loss.
By Mxolisi Makhubela5 months ago in Psyche
MEN DON'T CRY: BUT THEY BREAK. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Look at the image of the man huddled against that cold stone wall. Stripped bare, curled into himself, clutching his head in absolute despair. You probably don’t see this man when you walk down the street. You don't see him at the office, or at the family dinner table, or laughing at the local coffee shop.
By Wellova 5 months ago in Psyche
People are Hate Watching Euphoria Season Three. Top Story - April 2026.
Hate-watching is defined as the practice of viewing media that a viewer dislikes, finds poorly made, or finds morally objectionable in order to derive pleasure from laughing, criticizing, or mocking it. In other words, we find enjoyment from consuming content that we are aware is bad.
By Annie5 months ago in Psyche