How to use data reduction, a technique from psychology, to drill down to what’s essentially true about what causes and relieves stress in your life.
Category Archives: Emotional Well-being
I Ask Google To Avoid The Harder Work Of Asking Myself
Trusting our intuition can be a difficult, vulnerable experience. So sometimes we avoid that work by looking for an outside authority to tell us what’s right.
When I Get Anxious And Sad
Perspective on how conditions — like fatigue and the season we’re in — impact emotions.
Books Are My Refuge From The World And My Connection To It
Books and bookstores as self-care.
Collaboration Is A Skill
A lot of people think, “Oh, I’m a good person, so I’m a good collaborator. But that’s not how it works.”
Use Sales Copy To Sell Yourself Your Real Life
Sales copy is everywhere, especially on social media. It encourages comparison and wanting. But what if you could use it to help yourself want what you already have?
Fingers Of Water
Some days, the only alone time I get is in the shower. That can be enough.
Your Body Was Built To Change
It is a bizarre fixation of our current culture that we expect our bodies to behave the same regardless of what is going on around them.
Intuition Is A Part Of Rational Thought
The sensation we call intuition is, in fact, a synopsis of everything we know — the sum of all that we have experienced and all that we are currently experiencing. The mark of an intellectually evolved person is not someone who ignores their intuition but someone who harnesses it.
Create Things Just For Yourself
Who do you create for?