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My Boyfriend Won’t Go to Therapy, So Why Am I Doing His Emotional Work?
"Have you thought any more about finding someone to talk to?" "Why would I pay a stranger when I have you?" It reads like a…
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Why Some Anxious People Feel Calmer Watching Horror Movies
Why would someone who jumps when the microwave beeps choose to end a hard week with a possession movie, lights off, volume up? And why…
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Should You Warn Your Ex’s New Partner? What Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero Gets Right About Patterns
Content note: this post talks about controlling and emotionally abusive relationships. If you're in danger right now, the National Domestic Violence Hotline answers at 1-800-799-7233,…
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Why You Go Quiet When You Finally Get What You Asked For
Getting what you asked for is supposed to be the end of the story. The text comes back fast. The person shows up, on time,…
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Autumn Is the Season of Letting Go, and Your Body Already Knows: Seasonal Depression and the Dropping Light
Every September the feed turns over on schedule. Fall-reset videos: the closet swap, the new planner, the candle lit at 5pm, the "this is my…
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Intuition vs Anxiety: How to Tell Which One Is Speaking
That bad feeling about the new job, the new person, the second date: is it a warning worth heeding, or fear doing an impression of…
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Emotional Burnout Among Ukrainian Women More Than Doubled in Three Years: What It Says About Adapting Without Recovering
Twenty-three percent in 2023. Fifty-six percent in 2026. That's the share of Ukrainian women reporting emotional burnout across four waves of research by Gradus Research…
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The Therapy Girlfriend Skit: When Healing Language Becomes a Way to Avoid Feeling
He says he's had a long day, and before the sentence is finished the analysis is already running: he's shutting down, this is avoidance, he…
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Nicole Vignola’s Rewire and the Case for Repetition Over Insight
Therapist: "So what do you think happens when you go quiet in an argument?" Her: "I know exactly what happens. I could draw you a…
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Why Do I Feel Drained Around People? Look at the Version of You That Shows Up
The group chat is planning Saturday. Six people, a rooftop bar, then maybe someone's apartment. Maya types "omg yes" and adds the right emoji, and…