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

Not Everyone is Counting Down
Every year, starting December 1st, the countdown begins. Advent calendars are opened. Holiday movies play on repeat. Conversations fill with excitement about traditions, plans, and everything people can’t wait for. And every year, I watch that countdown from the outside.
By Annie Edwards 2 months ago in Psyche
The Power of Tiny Efforts
For a long time, I believed that change had to be loud. Big goals. Big plans. Big transformations. If I couldn’t do something perfectly or all at once, I often didn’t do it at all. I waited for motivation to strike, for energy to appear, for the “right time” to arrive. And while I waited, days quietly passed.
By Fazal Hadi2 months ago in Psyche
How to Handle Emotional Overload
There are days when the world feels louder than usual—when every little thing presses on your chest as if your heart has forgotten how to make space.
By Fazal Hadi2 months ago in Psyche
My Best Habit: Daily Review
I used to end my days feeling like I had lived on fast-forward. I rushed, reacted, checked off tasks, and collapsed into bed with a messy mind. Some nights felt like I blinked and the entire day had passed without me being truly there for any of it.
By Fazal Hadi2 months ago in Psyche
The Emotional Echo: How Micro-Rejections Shape Our Inner World. AI-Generated.
Most people understand the sting of major rejection. A breakup, a job denial, a falling-out with a friend—these events leave marks that are easy to recognize. But psychology has begun paying increasing attention to something far quieter: micro-rejections. These are small, often fleeting moments of social dismissal that many of us overlook or brush aside. A text left unanswered, a slightly cold tone from someone we care about, a subtle exclusion from a group conversation, a joke that doesn’t land the way we hoped—it’s easy to dismiss these experiences as trivial. Yet they leave emotional echoes that can meaningfully influence our behavior, self-perception, and overall psychological health.
By Kyle Butler2 months ago in Psyche
Why Failure Is Your Strategy
I used to think failure was a sign that something was wrong with me. That maybe I wasn’t talented enough, smart enough, or disciplined enough to keep up with the shiny, successful world around me.
By Fazal Hadi2 months ago in Psyche
The Wearying Of Life. Top Story - December 2025.
Have you felt it? The change in the feeling of life? The constant feeling of being physically and mentally tired? The fatigue that crept insidiously into our lives?
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)2 months ago in Psyche
Mental Health & Anxiety: Legal Ways to Seek Help and Treatment Options. AI-Generated.
In today's fast-paced world, mental health issues like anxiety are becoming increasingly common. The World Health Organization(WHO) states that one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Therefore, it's crucial to understand the various legal ways to seek help and explore potential treatment options.
By Dwayne Lindsay2 months ago in Psyche
A Blanket of Ash
Elias stood at the kitchen window, hip pressed against the cold aluminum frame, a cigarette burning down to the filter between his fingers. It was well past midnight. The snow, a slow, steady fall for hours, had finally smothered the city. Not a sound. Not a goddamn whisper. Just the heavy, plush quiet of winter, the kind that makes your ears ring, makes you feel like you’re underwater. From the fourteenth floor, the streetlights below were dull, haloed orbs, struggling to pierce the thick, white air. Every car, every dumpster, every ragged bush was softened, rounded, like the world had been carved from some enormous bar of soap. He flicked ash into the sink, the grey powder landing with an almost audible puff against the porcelain.
By HAADI2 months ago in Psyche
The Hidden Costs of Hustling. Top Story - December 2025.
People do not need to be reminded of the murky, colourless and dull picture of what burnout resembles, of either 'taking on too much' or 'hustling too hard.' I truly get it. Burnout is real for both entrepreneurs and employees alike; and when we push our bodies to the brink - aches and pains, and perhaps a few viral infections and mental exhaustion (only to name) come knocking on your domain. And these pesky guests do not give two hoots as to whether or not they are invited to the party - let alone into your own personal space. Life is expensive, and it is only becoming more commonplace and familiar. It is important to put in the effort, yet that effort needs to be inspired. It does not matter what line of work you engage in, provided you are in the flow. The healing starts with you in getting to the bottom of your trauma and inner child. Doing the inner work.
By Justine Crowley2 months ago in Psyche
Watch Out Wednesdays 12/10/25 (Opinion)
The things to watch out for on this Watch Out Wednesday will make you say "WOW" while you are reading this post. Here are a few tidbits that will keep your mind sharp today.
By Adrian Holman2 months ago in Psyche
The Quiet Power of Liminal Spaces: How Threshold Moments Shape the Psyche. AI-Generated.
Liminal spaces—moments, states, or environments where we stand between what was and what will be—have long fascinated psychologists, anthropologists, and storytellers alike. They occupy the hazy middle ground between known and unknown, certainty and ambiguity, identity and transformation. In the realm of psychology, liminality falls under the broader category of existential and developmental psychology, but it is a striking subcategory in its own right, touching on identity formation, emotional resilience, and the way we process change throughout our lives.
By Kyle Butler2 months ago in Psyche