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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 Podcast6 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 Podcast6 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 Revna6 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 Richardson6 months ago in Psyche
The Helper's Dilemma In Today's Professional World
Written by a human, for humans, always. --- So many people in today's world need help… And there are many different types of organizations that have come into existence to provide that help.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM6 months ago in Psyche
"Elementary" (2012): Sherlock Holmes and Autism Representation
Disclaimer: There will be spoilers for the show "Elementary" below. Now, let's get one thing straight: I'm not a Sherlock Holmes fanatic. I haven't been diving from one interpretation to the next, and I'm far from the most qualified person to tell you whether a particular rendition of Sherlock Holmes is "faithful" or not. What I am, though, is incredibly autistic. Something I see traits of in most versions of the Sherlock Holmes character. But no one has spoken to me quite as much as Jonny Lee Miller's performance of Sherlock Holmes in Elementary, a TV show running from 2012 to 2019. And mind you, I've only watched until the season 4 finale as of writing.
By Zoe Faye Jensen6 months ago in Psyche
Before I Learned to Let Go: The Weight I Didn’t Know I Was Carrying
There was a time in my life when I believed holding on was a sign of strength. I thought endurance meant never loosening my grip—on people, on memories, on expectations that had long expired. I wore my emotional weight like armor, convincing myself it made me resilient. But the truth is, before I learned to let go, I was slowly sinking under the very things I refused to release.
By Story Prism7 months ago in Psyche
