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Nato Lagidze

Nato is a writer and a researcher with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, psychological well-being, and the ways people make decisions. Writing about recent trends in the movie industry is her other hobby, alongside music, art, culture, and social influences. She dreams to create an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.
  • Inner Life, Places of Power

I flew to Málaga to give my nervous system a break, and it repaid me with an airport delay, an evacuation, a heatwave and an unplanned hike — the only thing that actually got reset was my expectations
  • Places of Power

Nobody tells you that home has an expiration date — one day you wake up in the same rooms you’ve lived in for years, and it doesn’t feel like home anymore, just a place you’re visiting
  • Relationships

You only get three or four real connections in an entire life, and there’s a real chance you’ve already met all of them without noticing
  • Places of Power

Community life is routinely declared dead, but in the pockets where it survives, it turns out to ask for almost nothing — just people willing to keep showing up
  • Inner Life

We can describe exactly who we used to be. We still don’t have the words for who we are now.
  • Ancient Wisdom

What you keep telling yourself may quietly become the way your body learns to feel
  • Inner Life

I spent years trying to become more self-aware. Nobody warned me that sometimes insight just gives your loneliness better vocabulary
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Yes, AI might be useful in mental health. No, that still doesn’t make it therapy
  • Ancient Wisdom, Inner Life

I’m finally reading Adam Phillips’ Missing Out. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard because it names the strange intimacy we have with the lives we never lived: “We share our lives with the people we have failed to be.”
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