4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (166+ words) Continue reading on Medium » Working through the feelings: Letting go of the hurt When I’m hurt, or when someone hurts me I begin to go into a cave. The cave is dark, it feels isolating and all that surrounds me…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago   (36+ words) When You Feel Like You’re Carrying Everything Alone: A Psychological Lens on the "No Helper" Reality There’s a quiet, heavy kind of pain that comes when you realize you have to face life entirely …...

5+ hour, 50+ min ago   (682+ words) What the psychology of procrastination taught me about studying, pressure, and the fear of failure. When I was a teenager, everything went well in school. I was the kid who …...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (36+ words) We send money, we arrange help, we buy things they never asked for. Somewhere along the way, we forgot to ask what they want. A couple …...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (34+ words) You don’t have to spend your whole day wondering what someone meant. Someone sends you a message that says, “Okay.” You read it again. Just okay? No …...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (37+ words) The apology I needed would never come from him, but life can’t wait! I still remember the smell of his workshop. Motor oil. Sawdust. The faint ghost of …...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (669+ words) I’m nineteen, so I understand that any criticism I offer about parenting comes with an obvious limitation: I have never raised a …...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (33+ words) Social pressure and the fear of acceptance (or the fear of rejection and the excessive pursuit of approval) represent a vicious cycle. This occurs when an …...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (252+ words) The version of someone you meet during hard times is rarely the whole person. Watch what happens once the ground stops shaking under them. You’ve …...

8+ hour, 36+ min ago   (519+ words) A man who thinks too much cannot simply go on living. After gaining some understanding of life, one longs for escape — to become unconscious, to stop thinking — only …...