support
A solid support system is invaluable for one's recovery from psychiatric illness and mental health issues.
When the Chaos Stops: What Healing Really Feels Like
This is what healing feels like once the chaos stops. It’s not fireworks or victory parades. It’s the quiet after a battle — a silence that hums in your bones, leaving you unsure whether to rest or run. After leaving an abuser, you begin to understand how much energy survival really took. You were living on adrenaline for months, maybe years, keeping yourself small and alert to every shift in mood, every potential storm. Now that the noise is gone, the body starts to shake loose all that it held.
By THE HONED CRONE3 months ago in Psyche
Gift Giving Must Be Mindful . Top Story - November 2025.
Gifts are given to others for a myriad of reasons: to celebrate joy or a specific milestone. Gifts travel way beyond marked occasions like Christmas, Birthdays, and other commercially oriented days such as Valentines Day to name. Gifts are given when people are awarded promotions; they recover from surgery; and at weddings, baby showers and graduations to name.
By Justine Crowley3 months ago in Psyche
My journey to better sleep
For years, I thought sleepless nights were just part of life. I’d lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, counting imaginary sheep, and still wake up exhausted. Mornings felt like a fog, and no amount of coffee seemed to help. At first, I brushed it off as “stress” or “just one of those phases,” but over time, I realized my lack of sleep was slowly taking over my life. I was irritable, unmotivated, and constantly anxious. Something had to change.
By Nangyal khan3 months ago in Psyche
Toxic Empathy
Empathy is one of humanity’s most beautiful and essential traits. It’s the bridge that allows us to understand, connect, and care for one another. But like all sacred powers, when empathy becomes distorted, unbalanced, or weaponized—it can turn deadly.
By THE HONED CRONE3 months ago in Psyche
“God-Fearing” Was the Most Powerful Control Spell Ever Cast
When most people hear “fear God,” they imagine trembling obedience — a cosmic authority waiting to punish, a sky-father with lightning in his fist. The phrase summons guilt, submission, and the dread of being wrong. But the truth is more nuanced. The distortion of that phrase — the way it has been weaponized — is one of the most powerful control spells ever cast upon humanity.
By THE HONED CRONE3 months ago in Psyche
Rising From Hell
The Alchemy of Survival: Turn the gaslight into fuel and fan your own flames 🔥 There’s a misconception that surviving abuse, betrayal, or trauma requires silence, shame, or meek compliance. That somehow, to be “good,” we must shrink into corners, lower our voice, and let the world dictate the terms of our suffering. That somehow, to survive, we must whisper, fold, and diminish ourselves until we fit inside the expectations of others.
By THE HONED CRONE3 months ago in Psyche
Routines Keep the Mood Clean. Content Warning.
Routines can help keep the mood clean—well, cleaner. I struggle with Bipolar Disorder, and if you do too, then welcome. This is a place to learn something and own it with a great attitude. I won’t lie—it’s hard. The highs, the lows, the mania-fueled spending sprees, and the drawer full of half-baked hobbies. You know the one. Mine is packed with crochet equipment, resin art, an unopened puzzle, and a very expensive art set I bought during a spending spree. I call it my “Kate Middleton Drawer” so many hobbies all the while being a princess —except I look more like Adam Sandler when I’m doing any of those things. (Comfort > couture, every time.)
By Jessica Higginbotham3 months ago in Psyche
