Category Archives for "mental health"

Self-loathing is simultaneously harmful and useless. All downside and zero upside. So, why then, do so many of us fall into patterns of self-loathing? For some of us, we are more or less content but we have these little areas of our life that make us hate ourselves just a tad. For others, self-loathing is […]

If you tell yourself, “I hate my life,” then this guide on teaching you how to stop hating yourself will come in handy. A decent amount of people have sent this exact message to my inbox over the years. They read my work and it makes them comfortable confiding in me. I’ve had people tell […]

Every morning, I write down three things I’m grateful for. When you learn how to practice gratitude, you can apply it in different directions. You can use gratitude to understand that your life isn’t so bad and this will help you when you feel down. You can also use gratitude to keep yourself from always […]

You know what your problem is? You think you understand other people, but you don’t. In many ways, you don’t understand yourself. You operate under the assumption that people should behave a certain way. You have a vision of what the world should be like instead of focusing on the way it actually is. Think […]

“My lesson […] is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.” – Nassim Taleb The masses in society are a case study on how not to think. If you did the opposite of what most people […]

I get it. You’re tired. I’m tired. We’re all tired. Whatever you feel the need to do to get by right now, do it. I’m not here to tell you what to do. I’m here to make some suggestions for things you could to not just improve your mental health during current times, but all […]