coping

Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.

At What Cost?
We Live is a Hyper World. Things are Moving Hyper Fast. Emotions are becoming Hyper-Reactive. Stressors are Hyper Intense.
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)9 months ago in Psyche
Region Beta Paradox use in everyday life
The Region Beta Paradox is psychological phenomenon whereby individuals seemingly choose to remain in slightly unfavorable situations for longer periods than choosing a more acutely unfavorable situation for a much shorter duration. This despite the fact that we often recover more quickly from a worse situation than a less bad prolonged one.
By Ted Maul 9 months ago in Psyche
The First Step to a New Me. Content Warning.
There were children outside the kitchen window waiting for the bus, giggling, pure vitality. I stepped outside, the sun was warm for a December morning, almost like an early summer morning. I remembered how much I had enjoyed those first few weeks in town. They had a careful brilliance, a dancing optimism—like anything could happen. Life was vibrant.
By L.H. Reid9 months ago in Psyche
Double time
Shock. That was the first one. It was so weird though, I never felt like I was shocked. Shock was followed quickly by denial.
By Jennidoll of (jennidoll.inc)9 months ago in Psyche
When the Cable Snaps. Runner-Up in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge.
The elevator rises slowly, as it has been for almost a decade. It started at the bottom and has lifted upwards, stopping at several floors along the way. The elevator continues its journey to the top, only you’re not sure if you want to get there. You contemplate your ascent, weighing your options.
By Alyssa Musso9 months ago in Psyche
The Local Catch Of The Day
It was once believed in a province protected by a polished rainbow arch, giants roamed the suburbs, but inside the hilly concrete city a small meek royal character Forty-Niner Francisco resided counting discovered legal tender, captured streaming the local waterways.
By Marc OBrien9 months ago in Psyche
The Bench
The Bench. A simple story we share, we that have loved are kin. I invite you to find that place in your heart that resonates with love.
By Theosis Northam9 months ago in Psyche
Metamorphosis of the Mind
And in the blink of an eye, one day my whole life had changed! My earth was shattered like shards of glass falling to the ground beneath my feet.
By J.W. Baird9 months ago in Psyche
It's March 25. Honorable Mention in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge.
I still think about Giuseppe every day. It’s March 25 and I catch myself staring out the window - in a trance - never sure for how long or what I was looking for. Spring has started to reveal himself, provocatively - though my desire seems frozen inside the 25 kisses G used to leave on my sleepy forehead before catching the metro; a morning person to my night owl, compatible only through dialectical juxtaposition, cosmically at odds. I’ve learned to relinquish my daze to Spring, an act of supplication to lead the escape from Winter and all the heartbreak we bore with the cold, infamous for keeping dead organs alive.
By Aaron Calloway9 months ago in Psyche
Trapped in Silence: How Writing Freed Me—and My Late Grandmother
She sat beside me at the Thanksgiving table. Her hands reached for the mashed potatoes. She carefully picked out only the white meat from the plate of turkey, laid it neatly on her plate, and poured my mom’s homemade gravy on top. Her white cardigan was buttoned just right. Her hair was curled in the way it had been when I was a child— back when she would get it permed, before she lost her hair to breast cancer. Her body breathed, blinked, swallowed. Everything about her looked like her.
By Hannah Hess9 months ago in Psyche
The Shape of Unbecoming
Blankness. All I felt was a moment of blank, muffled dissociation. Like one of those war scenes in a movie—an explosion goes off, and while the battle rages in chaos around the main character, they stand dumbfounded in shock, hearing only the vague ringing in their head.
By Jesse Struble9 months ago in Psyche
In the Lot. Top Story - April 2025.
In the empty lot across the street from my house, which was a mobile like the other homes on Turner Avenue, Bailey took off her training bra and flung it in a birch tree.
By Jennifer A. G.9 months ago in Psyche