Relationships
The Fear of Engulfment in Love
It is a permanently curious idea: that love – the thing we think we crave and miss so much when…
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How to Sleep Better
Our 3am awakenings are signs that we have repeatedly not been doing the sort of self-reflection we need to do in order to be at peace.
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Anxiety
How and Why We Catastrophise
A mind prey to catastrophic thinking can never picture any solid steps between the present and the very worst scenarios — only and always just a direct line.
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Anxiety
On Being ‘Triggered’
To overcome our triggers is to come to navigate the present with all the confidence and excited curiosity that should have been ours from the start.
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What Is the Difference Between the Words ‘Neurotic’ and ‘Psychotic’?
The terms ‘neurotic’ and ‘psychotic’ both indicate, effectively enough, that something is not entirely well with someone’s mental state. However,…
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The Kind of Happiness We Should Be Sad About
Given how hard it is to be happy, it seems churlish and mean to say of anyone that they might…
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Leisure
Love and ‘The Waste Land’
‘The Waste Land’ is the name of a poem published in 1922 by the Anglo-American writer T. S. Eliot. Widely…
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Relationships
Love Lessons
It can be easy to feel – as we look back on our love lives – that we have been…
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Sociability
When People Start To Get Interesting…
We may spend a considerable portion of our lives chewing over – in the background – a highly consequential-sounding question:…
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Self-Knowledge
Learning To Be More Immature
Most of us need, of course, to make every effort to behave more maturely around other people: that is, to…
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Understanding The Fear of Intimacy
The feeling of disdain is widespread for those who are said to be, behind the smiles, ‘afraid of intimacy’, or…
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Thinking Well in the Age of AI
A Practice for Slowing Down We are entering an era in which thinking could become optional. At almost any moment,…
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