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The Little Book of Calm: Tame Your Anxieties, Face Your Fears, and Live Free

The Little Book of Calm: Tame Your Anxieties, Face Your Fears, and Live Free

This essential guide offers techniques, advice and inspiration on the most effective ways to manage anxiety.

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Everything You Know About Resilience Is Wrong

The very idea of resilience is founded upon the idea that one can learn the skills to bounce back from adversity and life challenges…

8 min readJul 13, 2021

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Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut

It might seem like good advice, but it’s not a universal motto to live by. Your gut is no less immune to the biases and irrationalities…

8 min readJul 10, 2021

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How Important Is the Past to My Present Happiness?

The answer to this question is a paradox. Put quite simply: it’s both “very important” and “less important than you might think.” That it…

7 min readMay 18, 2021

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A Periodical for the Psychologically Curious

Why Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom

The way in which you are crazy is the very ticket to your sanity.

8 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Why Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom

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The TikTokification of Mental Health: What Can a Legit Shrink Possibly Add?

TikTok is rife with misinformation and served up by algorithms that prefer influence over quality: it’s the Tiktokification of Mental…

12 min readSep 18, 2023

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The Elements of Personal Leadership: A Whole Self Approach

You have to lead yourself before you can lead others. These are the main skills to galvanise your personal best.

7 min readAug 17, 2023

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The Elements of Personal Leadership: A Whole Self Approach

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Why Twitter Persists Despite Musk

Deeply misunderstanding his own platform Musk sees it as a product to innovate, not a community to facilitate.

7 min readJul 31, 2023

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Why Twitter Persists Despite Musk

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The Taoist Online

The Mystical History of C.G. Jung

From Occult Phenomena to Eastern Spirituality

10 min readJul 25, 2023

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On Loving What You’re Bad At

Your Super Power and the Secret Door to Your Unconscious

8 min readJul 17, 2023

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On Loving What You’re Bad At

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The Psychology of Black Mirror: What “Joan is Awful” Says About Us All

Season Six of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror kicks off in style, ticking all the boxes that we’ve come to expect from the franchise, and…

8 min readJun 22, 2023

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Annie Murphey and Salma Hayek in “Joan is Awful”.

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Aaron Balick

Aaron Balick

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Dr. Balick is a psychotherapist, cultural theorist, and author applying ideas from depth psychology to culture and technology.

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