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, […]
6 Mental Traps That Ruin Your Life
You’re hopeless, useless, burdensome. Nothing will ever go well, everyone is always better than you, you’ll never be perfect. You want to be liked, but you’re unlovable, and a failure at life. Sound familiar? To the majority of people this language does. Mental traps serve as the rusty cogs that continue the mechanic cycles of […]
