selfcare

The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.

Quietly Overwhelmed: Recognizing High Functioning Anxiety
The term "high functioning anxiety" represents those who experience anxiety symptoms while maintaining a high level of functioning in various aspects of their lives. Individuals with "high functioning anxiety" are often in successful careers or other roles, yet internally consistently struggle with feelings of stress, self doubt and the fear of not measuring up. They feel extremely uncomfortable on the inside and experience a loud inner critique.
By Khysandra Lee, Elevate Resilience Therapy6 days ago in Psyche
Your Dreams Are Warning You 💤
THE DREAM THAT SAVED MY LIFE 🌙 The night before the accident I dreamed about driving on a wet highway and watching a red truck drift across the center line toward me in slow motion, and the dream was so vivid and so specific that when I woke up I could remember the exact stretch of road, the exact color of the truck, the exact moment of impact, and the sensation of spinning that followed, and I dismissed it as anxiety because I had a long drive ahead of me that day and my subconscious was probably just processing my standard driving-related nervousness into narrative form as brains do during REM sleep when they organize daily concerns into dream scenarios 😴
By The Curious Writer6 days ago in Psyche
Behaviors Caused By Trauma. Content Warning.
Human beings are like an iceberg. We go through life sharing only the pieces of ourselves that we want people to see. But there's so much more going on inside.
By Elizabeth Woods8 days ago in Psyche
We Have Fooled Ourselves
I have been writing, in recent months, about human suffering. Not because I enjoy thinking about it, but because I believe that to look away from it, to convert it into abstraction, is itself a kind of complicity. I wrote about a feeling I was not supposed to have. I wrote about the price paid by those who never chose the conflict that consumes them. And now I find myself returning again, pulled back by images I cannot stop seeing.
By Hashem Koohy8 days ago in Psyche
Why You Feel Tired All the Time (Even When You Didn’t Do Much). AI-Generated.
Last Tuesday, I remember sitting at my desk around 6 p.m., staring at my screen, feeling completely drained. The strange part was—I hadn’t really done much that day.
By Kenza Rolland8 days ago in Psyche
A mirror only feels harmless when it is pointed somewhere else
You know how it goes. Most people can tolerate truth just fine as long as it stays theoretical. As long as it belongs to someone they can observe from afar, analyze, judge, maybe even feel a little sorry for. They sit at a safe distance and call it honesty and talk all day long about self-awareness, accountability, emotional maturity, healing, patterns.
By Annam M Gordon9 days ago in Psyche
My Father’s Daughter: The Real July. Content Warning.
I wrote this after experiencing a Complex PTSD from episode when I looked at a photo from 2016. No names, but the country blues are now behind me. I do not cave to narcissism.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 10 days ago in Psyche
The Games We Play Every Day
“No one forced you to play. That’s why you never realized you were in the game.” You wake up, Check your phone, “And the game has already started.”
By Kaliyah Myers10 days ago in Psyche
Paint Your Life Yourself. The Rainbow of Life’s Needs
Sometimes, to figure out what’s missing—or what’s overflowing—you just need to visualize it. Grab some colored markers, pencils, or even a plain pen, and two sheets of paper. Any size works. The first one? That’s your now—how you’re living right now. The second? Your future—how you want to live. Fill them with your life. Use whatever tools feel right, and I’ll walk through this with you.
By Eliza Woodstorm10 days ago in Psyche
Spoon for soup: How Social Media Forces Us to Eat by The Rules
Social media is present in our lives as an indispensable part of existence. Social media is our soup spoon. We can eat soup with a fork, with chopsticks, with our hands, or drink the broth straight from the bowl like water — and as a result, we either get messy or spend far too much time eating. A soup spoon lets us enjoy the meal calmly, without fear of soiling ourselves or our clothes. But is that really true? A small child can still get messy even with a spoon.
By Eliza Woodstorm10 days ago in Psyche
The Power of Presence
When “Good Parenting” Became a Feeling In modern parenting conversations, “good” has increasingly come to mean emotionally warm, verbally affirming, and immediately comforting. A good parent is expected to soothe distress quickly, validate feelings consistently, and minimize discomfort whenever possible. These traits are treated as obvious indicators of healthy parenting, reinforced by cultural messaging, therapeutic language, and social reward structures. When a child feels better in the moment, the parenting decision is assumed to have been correct, and when discomfort persists, the decision is often framed as a failure of care rather than a necessary part of development.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast11 days ago in Psyche
Why Discipline Matters More Than Motivation. AI-Generated.
Most people believe they need motivation to start. They wait for it. They expect it. They depend on it. But the truth is, motivation is one of the most unreliable forces in your life.
By Beran Marasciulo13 days ago in Psyche