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The courage to be ourselves

why it is important to the world to be who you are
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Ways I’ve hurt my relationships

For a long time in my life I wondered why important relationships (personal and work) in my life tend to implode, or why I tend to feel…
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Solving first world problems

Solving first world problems

making it into a worthwhile cause
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What does it mean to be depressed?

Questions and answers. Mostly answers.
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A personal take on gay marriage rights

A friend and me were talking about marriage recently. She said that marriage is just a legal status, and if you’re truly in love, why does…
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Why I write

what it means to write myself into life

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The beauty of being human

why we need the world to be imperfect to appreciate ourselves

Imagine for a moment, if you had super powers, an eternal life, and you lived in paradise. Everything is perfect.

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Finding a reason to exist

apparently I am not the only person looking for one

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How I finally learned to meditate

How I finally learned to meditate

I had been trying to learn how to meditate for years unsuccessfully. There was just something in me that recoiled in terror each time I…
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Practicing the ability to wait

Practicing the ability to wait

Last week, I was able to complete two twenty-minute sessions of practicing waiting in silence: a non-guided meditation and a treadmill…
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When a film provokes

When a film provokes

thoughts after watching “China’s Van Goghs”
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To love a country, know her story

To love a country, know her story

a contribution to The Birthday Book 2017
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A gift of stories

A few days ago I opened up to a friend about my sense of aloneness in this world. In return he told me a little story about me, and…
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Why it matters to speak up

I am very conflict adverse. So I spent a lot of my life keeping very quiet, and almost a decade being afraid of people. But there was an…
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Obvious features I wish the kindle would have

Obvious features I wish the kindle would have

I love the kindle. I have had five kindle devices, not including iOS devices. I am a book hoarder: at current count, I have 595 books in my…
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How a computer game can help better understand burnout

How a computer game can help better understand burnout

lessons learned from playing Civilization
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Fighting hopelessness

why depression is so hard to recover from
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Understanding mental health with systems thinking

Understanding mental health with systems thinking

a simple holistic perspective on the complexity and importance of mental health
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What I learned from cultivating self-compassion

When I was just slightly younger, I had this impression that I was someone who was open-minded and I saw the world in shades of grey. I…
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Courage

In my last post I wrote that in 2017, I want to have the courage to stop abusing myself. It may seem strange that courage is needed to stop…
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Defying powerlessness

The past couple of weeks were difficult to endure for some of us. It was very tempting to disengage from reality — all that anger, sadness…
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This is not okay

Yesterday I shopped for groceries with my partner, and in the evening we watched “The Danish Girl”. The movie reminded me of how far LGBTQA…
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Growing older

on loving the process of ageing
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When kids end their own lives

An essay on suicide prevention popped up on my Facebook feed. The author was spurred to write it due to the loss of her friend. At 19, they…
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The debt I owe

On the surface, this world is practically inhabitable for someone like me. I feel too much, I have no interest in competition or survival…
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Break glass ceilings

Break glass ceilings

For most of us in the first world, we are living in conditions that have made the act of creation so easy — a random snapchat here, a tweet…
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On being chronically depressed and suicidal

on the life I could have lost, on the lives we could still be losing
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My emotional intensity

as a source of pride and shame
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