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The Vessel Editorial Team

The Vessel Editorial Team produces content on psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and the questions people return to about how to live well. We publish essays, reflections, and explorations drawn from psychological research, philosophical traditions, and contemplative practices. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, research, drafting, fact-checking, editing, and review, rather than a single individual's writing. The Vessel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
  • Relationships

Psychology says people who let the slower walker set the pace on a narrow pavement aren’t being patient — they’ve clocked that matching someone’s speed costs them nothing, while overtaking costs the other person a piece of their dignity
  • Inner Life

The people who light up a room without trying built these inner qualities quietly, over time — attractiveness had little to do with it
  • Green Horizons

Ceramics return to the earth eventually, but the kilns, glazes, and plastic additives used in production shape how sustainable they really are
  • Green Horizons

Washing synthetic clothes releases microplastics into waterways — these laundry filters are designed to stop that from happening
  • Green Horizons

Most people assume unsold clothes go to charity — the reality is far more wasteful, and the industry is only beginning to reckon with it
  • Inner Life

Every alternative platform is a quiet bet about who you’d be somewhere else — a cleaner feed, a kinder algorithm, a version of you that finally sticks. The bet rarely pays out because you’re the one thing that migrates with it
  • Green Horizons

Commercial body sprays may smell harmless, but the synthetic chemicals they contain have been linked to hormone disruption and serious health risks
  • Green Horizons

Most people assume the hair dye on the shelf was approved as safe before it got there — coal-tar hair color is exempt from the rules that govern every other cosmetic ingredient
  • Green Horizons

Scientists spent a decade trying to replace silk without killing a single silkworm the six fabrics that came out of it are made from lotus stems, fermented yeast, and fruit peels most people have never heard of
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