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International Women’s Day: the freedom not to be perfect
Today is International Women’s Day, and I’m writing this from the dining table while listening to Radio 3 Unwind. I’m sitting down with my laptop and a going-cold cup of tea, after Virginia Woolf’s famous essay A Room of One’s Own popped into my head. In it, she reflects that for a woman to write fiction, she needed two things: money and a room of her own (ideally with a door that closes). What she really meant, perhaps, was time to think and the freedom to exist inside her own mind.
By Chelsea Branch4 days ago in Psyche
Stop - Just Stop it right now
"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm; when we look at each other, we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
By Elizabeth Woods5 days ago in Psyche
Habits that rewired my anxious brain
This might not be your typical wake-up and eat a healthy diet list. This is not to say they are not useful, but they didn’t work for my chronically dysregulated, scared, and anxious nervous system. In this list, I will mention highly niche things that worked for me, and I will help you personalize what may work for you, too, based on the common working principle, not the habits themselves.
By Amira hossam5 days ago in Psyche
