Find the place where you do not have to fight to be understood

Some individuals spend a lifetime fighting a battle to be understood. They wish the sentences they utter would be more clearly understood. They modulate their tone. They try to explain. They keep cool. They talk in a more logical way. They use softer words. They write with greater clarity. They give more explanations. And yet: …

Train Station Theory

Sometimes, only a few people’s lives may be compared to relationships. The rest resemble a train station. How’s that? You have a metaphorical stop within yourself that’s a kind of internal pause or something that is always doing quiet loops within you. Then, with no awareness on your part, it gradually becomes a platform… Where …

To Love Who You Are Now, Stop Hating What You’ve Been Through.

Sometimes​‍​‌‍​‍‌ you look in the mirror and the person you’re really angry at isn’t today’s you it’s the older versions of you walking in the background of that reflection. “Why did I become like this?” you think. “Why do I react like this, why do I get triggered so easily, why do I break so …

The Clever Hans Effect: Not as Magical as People Think, Not as Miraculous as They Want It to Be

“This​‍​‌‍​‍‌ healer was so wonderful… Like no one has ever understood me before.” “This psychic basically explained my entire life without me even speaking.” Maybe you’ve come across these sentences. Maybe you’ve even uttered some of them yourself. It seems that the person in front of you has some kind of “superpower”: They find the …