mental health

Twelve lessons from Jay Shetty’s Think Like a Monk, each checked against the research, with one thing to try this week and an honest verdict.

Affirmations can backfire. How to love yourself more by turning down the self-attack first, with five small steps you can start tonight.

What self-awareness is, its kinds, why looking inward is harder than it feels, what it can cost, and five small steps to build it, including one person.

Forgiveness is not forgetting, excusing or making up. What it does ask, five steps to start tonight, and when forgiving is not the right next step.

Why public humiliation hurts more than embarrassment, what the people who saw it likely think, and five small steps for the days after.

Why the rat race feels pointless, why we stay in it anyway, and five small steps to take back one more day, without being told to quit or to stay.

Ten lessons from Jay Shetty, each traced to where he says it, checked against the research, with one thing to try this week.

A gratitude list of 100 things to be grateful for, grouped by the part of life they come from, with how to keep it specific and what the research shows.

Detachment means gripping less, not caring less. What the research says, how it works with people you love, and five small detachment techniques.

Hope and fear are not a binary. What each does to a decision, what the research does and does not show, and a ten-minute check to see which one is choosing.