Let's clear something up right away. There is probably not going to be a couch. There might be a couch. We are not anti-couch. But if the picture in your head involves lying down, staring at a ceiling, and free-associating about your mother while somebody in wire-rimmed glasses says "and how does that make you […]
If you are in crisis, you can call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time of day or night. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. September 6 through 12 is National Suicide Prevention Week, and September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. We could write you a post full of statistics. […]
There is a light on your dashboard right now that you have decided is probably nothing. Maybe it is an actual light. Maybe it is the way you have been sleeping. Maybe it is the fact that you snapped at someone you love last week over something that did not deserve it, and you have […]
We've spent this month naming a pattern a lot of us live inside without realizing it: worth that's contingent on achievement, perfectionism that turns high standards into a cage, and comparison that quietly convinces us everyone else has it more together. So let's end where it matters most — not just understanding the problem, but […]
Back-to-school season means a particular kind of scroll: first-day-of-school photos, freshly organized homework stations, matching backpacks, captions about how "grateful" everyone is. None of it is dishonest, exactly. It's just incomplete — the highlight reel, not the whole reel. And for a lot of us, scrolling through it does something quiet and corrosive to how […]
Ask most perfectionists if they're perfectionists, and you'll often get a pause, a laugh, and some version of "I mean… maybe a little." It's one of the few struggles that gets treated like a humble-brag. I just care too much. I just have high standards. But if you've lived inside real perfectionism, you know it's […]
