4 Things I No Longer Say

And why my life is happier that way

Kristina Kasparian, PhD
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readFeb 23, 2022

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Photo credit: Jasmine Star | Social Curator

As a psycholinguist by training and a multilingual writer, my brain has always been extra attuned to language. I can’t ride a bus or sit in a coffee shop without curiously analyzing accents and word choices. But it was only a couple of years ago that I started to pay attention to my words on a whole new level: I began seeing them as micro choices that either…

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Kristina Kasparian, PhD
ILLUMINATION

Author, neurolinguist, entrepreneur & health activist advocating for social justice in healthcare, especially for endometriosis. kristinakasparian.com