selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
Why Somatic Healing Techniques Trump Traditional Self Help
When the body feels and becomes safe - that is when pain and trauma starts to transmute. Talk therapy, combined with listing down the pros and cons of aiding in decision making, no matter the magnitude, is all well and good; yet such self-help and healing techniques do not reach the somatic and sticky bits, right up to the fascia. In no way, shape or form are these techniques being discounted and brushed aside; however for deep healing from caretaking, people pleasing, co-dependencies and addictions (all in the name of unresolved trauma - whether acquired through childhood and/or adulthood); being stuck in the head is a significant disservice to you, and to all of us. (Yes, we are all connected at the end of the day, even if you live in the Northern Hemisphere).
By Justine Crowley18 days ago in Psyche
Adenovirus on the Rise: What You Need to Know About the Silent Virus Spreading Fast
Why Doctors Are Warning About Adenovirus Infections Adenovirus is not a new virus, but lately it has been gaining renewed attention from doctors, parents, and public health experts. Reports of rising adenovirus infections—especially among children—have raised concerns worldwide. While many people think of it as just another cold virus, adenovirus can sometimes cause serious illness if ignored.
By Waqar Khan20 days ago in Psyche
Bare Branches
As I was driving home from town earlier this month, I suddenly noticed that the trees had no leaves on them. It struck me in surprise, because the last time I had noticed them, the trees were just beginning to turn colors. Time had slipped right past me, and I had flowed right along for the ride, never once paying attention to where I was going - not even lifting my head one time from what I was doing to look at the beauty of my surroundings and my favorite season. Looking back, I realize that the social media/internet break I had planned had turned into a walking fugue state.
By Mother Combs23 days ago in Psyche
The Power of Resilience: Developing Mental Toughness in the Time of Adversity
Adversity is something that we all encounter in life at some point or another. Whether it's loss personally, financial struggles, career disappointment, or even mental challenges, life has a way of challenging our resolve. While we can't always control the circumstances that cause us pain or distress, something we can control is our response to them. That's where resilience comes in. Resilience is the ability to rebound from adversity and transform positively amid adversity. Yet it's not about rebounding but being stronger, wiser, and better capable in the process.
By The Chaos Cabinet23 days ago in Psyche
Why Identity Is Not Self-Constructed: Mental Health and the Social Feedback Loop
Whitman Drake Abstract Contemporary mental health discourse frequently treats identity as an internally authored construct—something individuals can revise through cognition, self-reflection, or therapeutic insight. This assumption underlies popular clinical and cultural narratives that emphasize self-esteem, positive self-talk, and personal meaning-making as primary mechanisms of psychological stability. While these approaches offer partial benefits, they obscure a deeper and empirically supported reality: identity is not self-constructed in isolation. Rather, it emerges through sustained social feedback, recognition, and institutional response. Drawing on symbolic interactionism, social psychology, and mental health research, this article argues that mental health outcomes are inseparable from relational processes that validate or destabilize identity over time. Understanding identity as socially constituted clarifies why individual-level interventions often fail, why distress clusters around structural conditions, and why durable mental health requires collective as well as personal change.
By Whitman Drake23 days ago in Psyche
Alcohol Gives Me Hangexity
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.” — Alex Hitch, Hitch
By Chantal Christie Weiss23 days ago in Psyche
When Winter Teaches Us How to Feel Again. AI-Generated.
December doesn’t arrive loudly. It seeps in. Earlier sunsets after a day of rain. Streets that look familiar but feel emptied of color. The air sharp enough to make you aware of your breath. Winter, more than any other season, doesn’t ask for productivity or performance. It asks for honesty.
By Ahmet Kıvanç Demirkıran23 days ago in Psyche
The Psychology of Emotional Contagion. AI-Generated.
Walk into a room where tension hangs in the air, and you may feel uneasy before anyone says a word. Enter a space filled with laughter, and your mood often lifts almost instantly. This phenomenon is not coincidence or imagination; it is emotional contagion at work. Emotional contagion is a subcategory of social psychology that explores how emotions transfer from one person to another, often unconsciously. It shapes group dynamics, relationships, workplaces, and even entire societies, influencing how we feel and behave in ways we rarely notice.
By Kyle Butler23 days ago in Psyche
