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Best Binaural Beats App: My Top Picks
Confession: the first time I tried a binaural beats app, I thought my headphones were broken. One ear sounded slightly “off” compared to the other, and I spent ten minutes fiddling with the audio settings before realizing that was the whole point. Not my proudest tech moment.
By Hawrry Bhattarai5 months ago in Psyche
The Day I Finally Heard My Own Voice
The Day I Finally Heard My Own Voice A journey from silence to self-acceptance For most of my life, I lived in silence—not the kind where no words are spoken, but the kind where your words never truly belong to you. My voice was shaped by expectations, by the need to please, by the quiet fear of rejection. I spoke when it was safe, I stayed quiet when it mattered most, and I let the world’s noise drown out the sound of who I really was.
By Aariz ullah5 months ago in Psyche
Dancing With My Anxiety
Dancing With My Anxiety Learning to move in rhythm with the fears that once controlled me Anxiety used to feel like a shadow that followed me everywhere. It was in the way my heart raced when I spoke in public, the tightness in my chest when I opened my inbox, the constant loop of what ifs that never seemed to stop. For years, I believed anxiety was something I had to fight, wrestle, and defeat. But the harder I resisted, the more powerful it became.
By Aariz ullah5 months ago in Psyche
Dexter, ADHD, and the Quiet Labor of Masking
Masking has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Long before I knew I had ADHD, I was quietly sanding down my edges, trying to fit into a puzzle that never seemed designed for me. Being late diagnosed means I can now look back and finally name that struggle—every awkward attempt to belong, every exhausting effort to “pass” as normal.
By Small Sanctuaries5 months ago in Psyche
When Negotiation Ends: Triangulation and the Personalities That Refuse Resolution
As part of my upcoming appearance on That's Right with Chris Voss on The Success Network, this will be the first in a number of essays discussing the neuroscience and psychology of empathy in negotiations and interpersonal dynamics.
By Christopher Robin Gallego5 months ago in Psyche
I Was Surrounded by Men That Sexually Degraded Women. Content Warning.
There was something about him that gave me the ick. I was standing at his front door asking about the available spare room he had advertised, and even from that initial meeting, I had a strong sense he was imagining what I looked like underneath my clothes.
By Chantal Christie Weiss5 months ago in Psyche
What If Collapse Was the Moment to Come Back to Yourself?
We are living in strange times. Times that shake us, that unsettle and disturb. Every newsfeed feels like a prelude to disaster: rising geopolitical tensions, economic instability, the threat of war, urban violence, the resurgence of extremism, environmental disasters, inflation, and a growing sense that the future is slipping out of reach.
By Bubble Chill Media 5 months ago in Psyche
So, Whose Responsibility is Burnout Anyway?
In today’s fast-paced, hyper-connected world, burnout has become a global catastrophe, silently eroding the foundations of our workforce and society at large. As we navigate the complexities of modern work life, a pressing question emerges: who bears the responsibility for combating this depressingly ever-worsening threat?
By Bianca Best5 months ago in Psyche
Why We Forgive Our Parents Too Late
Forgiveness often comes wrapped in regret. By the time we are ready to forgive our parents, they are usually too old to hear it—or sometimes, no longer here at all. It’s one of life’s crueler truths: clarity arrives late, long after we’ve outgrown the walls of our childhood bedrooms, and by then the people we needed to understand have already faded into fragile versions of themselves.
By Saqib Ullah5 months ago in Psyche
