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When the Chaos Stops: What Healing Really Feels Like
This is what healing feels like once the chaos stops. It’s not fireworks or victory parades. It’s the quiet after a battle — a silence that hums in your bones, leaving you unsure whether to rest or run. After leaving an abuser, you begin to understand how much energy survival really took. You were living on adrenaline for months, maybe years, keeping yourself small and alert to every shift in mood, every potential storm. Now that the noise is gone, the body starts to shake loose all that it held.
By THE HONED CRONE2 months ago in Psyche
Gift Giving Must Be Mindful . Top Story - November 2025.
Gifts are given to others for a myriad of reasons: to celebrate joy or a specific milestone. Gifts travel way beyond marked occasions like Christmas, Birthdays, and other commercially oriented days such as Valentines Day to name. Gifts are given when people are awarded promotions; they recover from surgery; and at weddings, baby showers and graduations to name.
By Justine Crowley2 months ago in Psyche
The Introverts Guide to Getting Out of the House More
The Myers-Briggs personality test is an accurate way of knowing whether you are an introvert or not. Some of us introverts (including yours truly, who has swayed between an INTJ and an ISTP on this test) can be extroverted sometimes as well; yet if you have an "I" at the start of your personality test result, or you just know in your heart of hearts that you are a true introvert is that you are most "in your element" when you are at home, whether by choice or through some form of quarantine. When you know you know right?
By Justine Crowley2 months ago in Psyche
My journey to better sleep
For years, I thought sleepless nights were just part of life. I’d lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, counting imaginary sheep, and still wake up exhausted. Mornings felt like a fog, and no amount of coffee seemed to help. At first, I brushed it off as “stress” or “just one of those phases,” but over time, I realized my lack of sleep was slowly taking over my life. I was irritable, unmotivated, and constantly anxious. Something had to change.
By Nangyal khan2 months ago in Psyche
Why Women Fall In Love With Married Men
Although falling in love with a married man is one of the most confusing and emotionally complicated affairs a woman can experience, it still happens more often than people admit. There’s something about married men that seems to draw certain women in, even when they know it’s risky and morally complex.
By Zeeshan Ahmad2 months ago in Psyche
The Silent Truth: Why We Hold Back Instead of Speaking Up
There’s a moment in almost every relationship, friendship, or even casual interaction when we know we should speak up. You feel it—a truth that needs to be said—but somehow your voice gets stuck, and your words never leave your mouth. It’s frustrating, confusing, and sometimes even painful to watch someone go on unaware of the impact of their actions, while you remain silent. Why do we do this? Why is it easier to stay quiet than to speak our truth?
By Nangyal khan2 months ago in Psyche
Rising From Hell
The Alchemy of Survival: Turn the gaslight into fuel and fan your own flames 🔥 There’s a misconception that surviving abuse, betrayal, or trauma requires silence, shame, or meek compliance. That somehow, to be “good,” we must shrink into corners, lower our voice, and let the world dictate the terms of our suffering. That somehow, to survive, we must whisper, fold, and diminish ourselves until we fit inside the expectations of others.
By THE HONED CRONE3 months ago in Psyche
The metamorphosis
t's not strange that caterpillars change to butterflies. Imagine: golden rays of sun. The small but feisty caterpillar bathes in its' ray. It thinks, "oh, I love it. The sun, the breeze, the friends that I have. The only thing missing: turning into something greater then my nowadays shape. To answer my calling. Bye, fellas, I'm gonna be BETTER." Because what is better, to be bitter or better? It's honestly not better to be bitter. A small pun that was. Anyway. The caterpillar shakes off the lies that it can't transform. That it will always stay the way it is. That it will always be stuck. That the past defines it. We are all stardust. We all have one life to live. We can't waste it. I mean, we can, but for what purpose? The caterpillar waits in its' chrysalis. Waits. It struggles. By struggling, nature makes it stronger. The once caterpillar breaks free. It is now a beautiful butterfly, with iridescent wings. It is happy. More happy then what it was. It now can fly! "Oh, the air in my wings! The birds I hear sing! I feel so light!" It thinks. The butterfly is satisfied now. It changed. The change was its' calling. For now it is free, it has earned the definition of freedom. It broke off the chains. We can break our chains too. We don't need to live lives of enslavement. Think of som of the words that bear the meaning of change, or that share the same essence vicariously: metamorphosis, transformation, evolvement, development, healing. Because changing is healing. Healing is changing. When you heal, something about you is different. New. You are clean, free, healthier, whole. When you respect life, life respects you. When you listen to your own heart, paths unfold before you. Illusions shatter. Patterns reshape themselves. When the false self dissolves, the truth reveals itself. First - heal, lastly - be satisfied with how life has run its' course, with how things are. Breathe. When you breathe, you get calmer. Sit in silence. That's where true revelations come from. Observe, like an artist. Nature. People. Processes. Your own thoughts. Make adjustments. Live boldly. Take one step after the other, and don't ever look down. Look up. Up at the skies, the clouds, the treetops. Up to God. Up where inspiration comes from. Up up up up up. Connect with the universe, with the infinite. Live with all your might. For if you'll hurt who you love, you yourself will get hurt. That's how change is attained. That's how, day by day, step by step, breath after breath, something better unfolds right before you. And you become free. You become the butterfly. Becoming the butterfly doesn't mean giving up on your identity. It only means that you are enhancing your identity. You're not diminishing yourself. You care for yourself. You tend your own garden. Because self care and change are intrinsically connected. When you care for yourself, you change. Washing your face thoroughly - your closed eyes, your neck, your ears, your temples, is a technique that I find helpful. Buying a meditation book and in general reading books is honestly eye opening, heart opening and brain developing. Preparing your own, healthy food. Going to nature. Doing Yoga. Walking on a treadmill. Doing sports. Those are all things that change you, habits that change you, develop a stronger, resilient you that is smarter, better, and in more peace. Those habits will rewire your brain. They will have you living the good life. You'll find richness in every step you'll take. You'll find more contentment in life. The thing is, when you want something that is meant for you, you can have it. People are like butterflies. It's not impossible to change, it's most possible to do so, and it is about respecting life and what it has to offer. It's about respecting yourself. Stay strong.
By Maya Or Tzur3 months ago in Psyche
Conversations Over Coffee
I never thought a simple cup of coffee could hold so much meaning. Yet, there I was, sitting across from an old friend at a small café that smelled of freshly roasted beans, sunlight spilling lazily across the wooden tables. It was an ordinary Tuesday, but it was about to become a day I’d remember for a long time.
By Nangyal khan3 months ago in Psyche
