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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.

Is this the society we want?
So Amazon Go launched this week, and the rush to praise the “store without cashiers” as the future of retail was immediate and sustained. I found Ben Thompson’s considered take representative of the bunch:
By Shewriteshere5 years ago in Psyche
What Is Overthinking
You’ll become tremendously intense. Right now, your energy is simply expended by doing unnecessary endless activity. When you have so much mental diarrhea, how can you have energy?
By Manisha5 years ago in Psyche
The Art of Promising Nothing and Getting No One Upset
Spiritual topsy-turvydome is released when you pull its ugly nose and rejoice at the universal lack of activity. Of late, I witnessed an urgent need to educate myself in all the riff-raffs of the art of promising nothing.
By Olya Aman5 years ago in Psyche
If you can gift yourself only one thing this year, Write a note
At my worst moments, I often find myself stuck in a whirlpool of negativity. It feels like a maze that I can’t escape. I find myself struggling, searching for a hand, ladder, rope, something that would help me get out.
By Debdutta Pal5 years ago in Psyche
3 Things the Dying Taught Me About Living Well
Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever. ”~ Mahatma Gandhi I am a nursing instructor.
By Aava Sharma5 years ago in Psyche
U, Me and Freedom.
The greatest lie in history is believing that freedom isn't free...it is and always will be. However, dealing with others, Covid-19, stress and a new world of human online interaction can feel like a prison that strips you from your freedom. Even if you do not feel the pressure of lost freedom, every day occurrences, relationships and even children can be a challenge to your freedom. Do not let these external pressures break you into submission but allow them to be a guide to your eventual liberation.
By Mysterious Hovering Eye5 years ago in Psyche
Gemini Season
Chatty Gemini we meet again, This time though, we are going to be going through a transformative period, and now is the time to make sure you have your ducks in a row. This Gemini season brings us a beautiful full Flower Moon, Mercury Retrograde, and eclipse season; which in itself is a pretty magically chaotic time. One thing to remember is that eclipses often throw you into the deep end of the pool of feelings to set the stage for a much-needed change, they can be truly eye-opening and emotionally cleansing.
By Megan McCullough5 years ago in Psyche
Tales from the Dyslexic Side: Part 2
Dyslexics, it is said, have a reduced working memory; we can’t hold as much “live” information in our heads at once. While your long-term memory can be seen as a hard-drive storing retrievable information, your working memory is like a processor, holding and manipulating the info you are accessing now and allowing you to focus on the task at hand. So, to be able to concentrate on something, we need it broken down into nice manageable pieces. And this is fundamentally what being a copywriter is all about: taking something complicated and translating it into the simple terms we can.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Psyche
The Past
We all go through things that were meant to break us. A crack here, a crack there with each and every shake. I often ask myself and wonder. Why some succeed and flourish, while others fail and wither?
By J.W. Baird5 years ago in Psyche
Find a Good Psychologist
Finding a good psychologist is a bit like dating; you have to kiss a few frogs until you find the right one for you. I should know, I've been seeing them for 30 years. I've lost count of the amount of different psychologists I've seen, but out of all of them, I've only found one who works well for me.
By Alyssa Curtayne5 years ago in Psyche
The Importance of Friends' Night
Friend’s night. A concept most of us might have forgotten about during the pandemic era of slowly fading video chats, text messaging, and phone calls. Your closest friends seem a world away, distant online and distant in text.
By Aisling Rose5 years ago in Psyche
A Bold Prediction Of A Decision Coming This Gemini Season
Gemini, oh Gemini, your season arrives this year with portents unimaginable. For so long, you have bounced like a child’s toy between identities, being whatever felt right in the moment. You protected yourself, reducing exposure and covering the tracks of the Other. But the Other is you, and we know this to be true. You fill both sets of footprints in the fresh snow, and now your destiny is calling to you. Indeed, your future is waiting.
By John Lavitt5 years ago in Psyche