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🎂 Happy anniversary, bizarre Covid dreams

Covid changed the way we dream. What lies ahead?

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Maa's meat shelf

How we eat makes us who we are as much as what we eat.

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Let's talk: How to feel good about food again

Food was the only form of pleasure I allowed myself without guilt. I am afraid I am losing it, and I don't want to.

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Cybergrief has no unsubscribe button

My fantasy is to be able to choose my grief. I want to mark as spam all the grief in the world that I cannot handle. But grief born on the internet doesn't care for my fantasy.

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Let's talk: Has the mental health pendulum really swung too far?

Are we creating a culture where celebrating healing and recovery is ridiculed and demonised?

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Does diagnosis help or harm? Or, why we name our demons

Mental health diagnoses are often attacked for being unscientific, oppressive, and prone to abuse. But for many, they remain the only route to dignity and sanity.

Radical Hope

🌻 Special edition: "Hope is a discipline" and 5 other ideas to live by in hopeless times

Hope is hard work, but maybe, just maybe, it is within our grasp.

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Should crying clubs be declared essential public infrastructure?

Crying is said to have superpowers - such as flushing toxins from the body. But we shouldn't need 'science' to build a case for crying.

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🎟 Let's talk about crying

Sobbing, weeping, or bawling - whatever your method, I invite you to join me for a special conversation with Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book, an incandescent ode to our tears.

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Radical hope

How do we heal from this carnage?

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Covid has given me a whole new terror of numbers.

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I live streamed my panic attack on Instagram

If the world asks you to distribute your pain pro bono for the benefit of others — SHOW THEM THE MIDDLE FINGER.