Your life is a living hell. No matter what you do, no matter where you go, there’s the unshakeable feeling within you that you’re pathetic, worthless, ugly, stupid, and a total failure at everything. You may achieve something, you may be given love and affection, but you brush it off because of the toxic shame-ridden […]
Existential Crisis: 9 Ways to Get Through Life’s Darkest Times
The hardest thing about going through an existential crisis is that you feel constantly depressed and alienated. Nothing makes sense anymore and everything feels meaningless – including all of your old accomplishments, desires, professional attachments, relationships, and goals. You want to find your real purpose in life. You want to know why the f*ck we’re […]
7 Self-Soothing Techniques to Relieve Anxiety and PTSD
How do you cope when shit hits the fan? Anxiety is a reality we all need to deal with sooner or later. And how you support yourself through it makes all the difference in the world. If you struggle to calm down, suffer from unresolved trauma, or have a highly charged and wound-up nervous system […]
Self-Love: 21 Ways You Can Become a Doctor of the Soul
All throughout our early lives, we were taught how to read, how to write, how to manipulate, calculate, build, destroy, theorize, study, and analyze life. We were taught how to say “please” and “thank you,” as well as what was acceptable and unacceptable to others and society at large … but most of us failed […]
Suicide, Creativity, Depression and the Solace of Solitude
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (The Garden of Eden) I’ve been reading Infinite Jest for the last few days, and was saddened to find out that the brilliant author of the book (David Foster Wallace) committed suicide. I’m not surprised though. For a long time I’ve thought […]
How Your Subpersonalities Prevent Self Fulfillment
Our inner voices. They’re incessant, subtle and ever-present. Often we’re unaware of the internal dialogues that go on inside of ourselves, the self-talk that plays repetitively like broken records inside our minds. Unfortunately, however, this internal dialogue frequently consists of self-derisive and self-sabotaging thoughts and beliefs about ourselves and our capabilities. It’s not surprising then, […]
