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Why Proper Suboxone Dosing Matters for Daily Stability. AI-Generated.
That uneasy sense that your day is harder than it should be can show up even when you are committed to recovery and doing everything right.
By Jordyn Mastrodomenico8 days ago in Humans
Why Detox Drinks Often Do Not Work as People Expect. AI-Generated.
It is easy to believe that one drink could undo days, weeks, or even months of substance use, especially when the promise sounds simple and urgent.
By Jordyn Mastrodomenico8 days ago in Humans
Working with people you disagree with
Being in a closed circle of friends shields us from opposing ideas, our friends are generally people we agree with or who would be willing to go along with our ideas or even convince us otherwise. There are only very few places where we meet opposing points of views, the few I can think of are; at work, siblings or random strangers. This means that we often don’t get to work with people we disagree with, for strangers we only work with them for a limited time, with siblings we have parents to mediate and often go separate ways during disagreements, at the workplace we have a clear hierarchy for decision making. This means that the average person doesn’t know how to work with people they disagree with.
By real Jema8 days ago in Humans
Then, Try
Then try— not because the road is kind, not because the sky has promised you blue, not because the world is waiting with applause,
By Farhadi8 days ago in Humans
When Intelligence Learned to Help
The city woke up every morning before the sun, not because people demanded it, but because systems whispered to one another in the dark. Traffic lights adjusted their rhythms, power grids balanced invisible loads, and hospitals reviewed silent streams of data, preparing for the day ahead. At the heart of all this motion was something most citizens rarely thought about anymore: artificial intelligence. It did not announce itself. It did not boast. It simply worked.
By Farhadi8 days ago in Humans
What Your Boyfriend Doesn't Want
Your boyfriend does not want to think about another guy having been inside of you (even if we’re talking just hooking up here). The thought of some other dude getting dirty with you can drive him insane.
By LaMarion Ziegler8 days ago in Humans
Hermes and Other Things
It's January 1, 2026 and I rang in the new year smelling like my old self. I bought a bottle of perfume on my inaugural visit to the Magnificent Mile back in 2017. I really didn't have money to spend on expensive perfume. I’d just moved to Illinois from Louisiana and all my old problems would be arriving with my household goods and furniture soon enough. But as I walked through Neiman Marcus in downtown Chicago I felt like I deserved something that said look ma, I made it! I wandered around the summer displays and eventually ended up in cosmetics where this super slender woman dressed like she had just attended the funeral of someone famous or powerful basically assaulted me with scent. Galop d’Hermes.
By Christa Leigh8 days ago in Humans
Positive Things People Have Said About Me From A To Z
I never forget when people describe or analyze me in a positive way. On my 80th birthday on July 23, 2025, I reflected on all those positive words people have shared with me over the years. The positive descriptions are compilations from authority figures, physicians, teachers, counselors, therapists, pastors, employers, students, friends, and family members. You will see in the following capsules below many of the positive words and expressions people have used to describe me.
By Margaret Minnicks8 days ago in Humans
Why Modern Love Feels So Intense — Yet Ends So Fast
Introduction: The Paradox of Modern Love Modern love feels powerful. Fast. Consuming. People fall for each other in weeks, sometimes days. Conversations feel electric. Eye contact feels loaded. Texts feel addictive. There’s chemistry, attraction, emotional openness, and an almost cinematic sense of connection.
By F. M. Rayaan8 days ago in Humans
The One Habit That Quietly Transforms Your Entire Life
Most people think their life will change once something big happens — a lucky opportunity, a perfect moment, a sudden burst of motivation. They wait for some dramatic spark to push them forward.
By mike8 days ago in Humans
When “Let’s Talk” Is a Trap:
Most of us grow up believing that “talking it out” is the mature, healthy, emotionally intelligent thing to do. And in genuinely respectful relationships, it is. Communication is essential for repair, understanding, and connection. But there is a painful truth many people learn only after being hurt: not every invitation to talk is an invitation to heal. Sometimes it is an invitation to be controlled, destabilized, or emotionally ambushed.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior8 days ago in Humans
When Silence Becomes a Wall: The Cost of Withheld Communication and the Healing Power of Inquiry
When Silence Becomes a Wall Instead of a Window When a valued relationship suddenly goes quiet, trouble rarely lags far behind. I’m not speaking of the healthy pauses we sometimes need—those intentional, clearly expressed time‑outs that give the heart room to breathe and the nervous system space to settle. I’m speaking of a different kind of silence entirely: the reactive silence, the punishing silence, the silence meant to wound or control.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior8 days ago in Humans