Modern life is full of emotional challenges. The pressure to succeed, need to “keep up”, fear of missing out (FOMO) , and tucking in a social life somewhere in between – all evoke volatile combinations…
Transactional Relationships – Interact, don’t transect.
Relationships and interactions between people are core to our existence and they often define how we experience this world and perceive ourselves. Each of our relationships elicit different responses in ourselves to help us grow and…
Toxic Positivity — When Positivity Can Actually Be Negative.
Have you found your vents cut short, struggles invalidated by sayings like “think positive”, “it could be worse”, and just have a happy pill shoved down your throat? Well, that’s called toxic positivity, and…
Did Your Body Not Warn You?
Did your body not warn you before you were wrung dry? The day you found yourself depleted, the nights that lead upto it became fragile, your cell heavy as they were heaved onto the bed….
Ephemeral Escapes.
Escaping is short-lived; eventually, actuality catches up to you with guilt crashing like waves. Your thoughts are far from the ground, Like cumulonimbus clouds thundering by And pouring rain. Life seems to pass by, scattered…
More Foe Than A Friend.
Losses run deep, and games of maneuvering keep upgrading. We have come a long way, transitioning from playing snakes and ladders, to the snake games on our phones, to dealing with them in our reality….
Outsiders & Empathy
With her jagged edges, she stands, gazing upon the connection between the well versed, as her language remains misunderstood, dark and chaotic. Her edges are sharp, and grooves are too deep. The rhythm of her…
Progress Isn’t Always Linear
At times our priorities become a blur, and we lose focus of our site. We spiral down into the shelves of bad days and lose the drive, that push almost as though it was an…
Manipulators
Regardless of the phrase “you attract what you are”, warmth can attract moths. Kindness, softness, and empathy can attract manipulators, and be a pawn in their game; like dementors allured by happiness – depleting, diminishing,…
Ambivalent Friendships
Ambivalent relationships can actually be even more draining since dealing with inconsistency and uncertainty requires more time and energy. On the realization that navigating adult relationships seem to be relatively turbulent in comparative to school…