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Lachlan Brown

I love writing practical articles that help others live a mindful and better life. I have a graduate degree in Psychology and I’ve spent the last 6 years reading and studying all I can about human psychology and practical ways to hack our mindsets.
  • Inner Life

Psychology says women who are emotionally immature rarely show it through obvious tantrums—instead, they display these 9 subtle patterns that make you feel responsible for their emotional regulation
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  • Inner Life

Research suggests that people who feel lost after major life transitions aren’t experiencing a crisis. They’re experiencing the disorientation that comes right before a deeper, more honest version of themselves emerges
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  • Inner Life

Psychology says the emptiness people feel when their roles disappear isn’t about the roles. It’s about decades of postponing the question of what they actually wanted in favor of what they were needed for
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  • Inner Life

Psychology says the people who struggle most with purpose in a fast-changing world aren’t the ones who lack direction. They’re the ones who built their entire identity around being useful to others
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  • Inner Life

7 quiet signs that someone’s relationship with money is actually a relationship with fear, and most of them look like responsibility from the outside
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  • Inner Life

Psychologists explain that people who constantly compare their wealth to others aren’t materialistic. They’re using money as a proxy for worth because somewhere early on they learned that love and approval had a price tag.
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  • Inner Life

Psychology says people who grew up with financial instability often feel anxious even after they become wealthy, because the brain encodes scarcity as a survival threat that no bank balance can fully override
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Psychology says people who were told they were too sensitive as children don’t become less sensitive as adults. They become highly skilled at hiding it, and the cost of that performance shows up in their bodies decades later
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  • Inner Life

Psychology says people who pride themselves on never being a burden to anyone aren’t displaying independence. They’re repeating a survival pattern where love felt conditional on being low-maintenance, and it quietly costs them every close relationship
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