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Psychology says people who struggle in the first year of retirement aren’t bored or unprepared, they’re grieving a version of themselves that had a title, a place to be, and people who needed them by nine in the morning—and nobody thinks to call that a loss
  • Inner Life

Psychology says people who say “sorry” when someone else bumps into them aren’t weak, they often learned early that smoothing things over was safer than being right
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Psychology suggests grandparents who say yes to everything their grandchildren ask aren’t spoiling them, they’re getting a second chance at a kind of patience they couldn’t quite afford the first time around
  • 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
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  • Inner Life, Relationships

Across 43 studies of 11,196 couples, nobody could reliably say from the questionnaires whose relationship would improve or sour, though the answer that showed up most often was believing your partner wants it to last
  • 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
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Ancient Wisdom

  • Ancient Wisdom

Thought by Epictetus: “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things” — a sentence written nearly two thousand years ago that most people only discover they’ve been living in reverse
  • Ancient Wisdom

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

  • 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
  • Inner Life

Psychology says the deepest despair isn’t unhappiness — it’s living an entire life without ever becoming the person you were meant to be, a failure so easy to miss that most people who carry it never realise it’s there
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  • Inner Life

Students were cut out of an online ball game by players flying the flag of a party they said disgusted them, and it stung about as much as when their own side did it
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  • Inner Life, Relationships

Psychology says people who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends are often someone’s emergency contact and no one’s everyday one — and the gap between those two roles is where the loneliness actually lives
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  • Inner Life

We Thought We Were Free. Turns Out We’re Just Comfortable.
  • Inner Life

The unbearable weight of being understood by few people, including yourself
  • Inner Life

I mastered the 6 morning habits of highly successful people. They left me completely empty
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Relationships

A man in a red t-shirt leans on a kitchen counter, holding a coffee mug and looking thoughtful.
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Psychology says people who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends are often someone’s emergency contact and no one’s everyday one — and the gap between those two roles is where the loneliness actually lives
  • Relationships

Psychology says people who struggle in the first year of retirement aren’t bored or unprepared, they’re grieving a version of themselves that had a title, a place to be, and people who needed them by nine in the morning—and nobody thinks to call that a loss
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Psychology suggests grandparents who say yes to everything their grandchildren ask aren’t spoiling them, they’re getting a second chance at a kind of patience they couldn’t quite afford the first time around
An older couple standing side by side outside their farmhouse, photographed in the 1970s
  • Inner Life, Relationships

Across 43 studies of 11,196 couples, nobody could reliably say from the questionnaires whose relationship would improve or sour, though the answer that showed up most often was believing your partner wants it to last
  • 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
  • Relationships

A meta-analysis covering more than 300,000 people found that having few close relationships carried a mortality risk comparable to smoking up to fifteen cigarettes a day, and the effect held regardless of age, sex, or existing health
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Green Horizons

  • 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
  • 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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Creative Practice

  • Creative Practice

Goal setting with Ikigai: a values worksheet for finding what matters
  • Creative Practice

First 90 days in a new job: a bullet journal layout and planning worksheet
  • Creative Practice

Project management in your bullet journal: a planning template for analogue tracking
  • Creative Practice

Rainbow planner ideas for your bullet journal: colour as a way of telling time
  • Creative Practice

49 Alice in Wonderland bullet journal spreads: pages that make room for something other than productivity
  • Creative Practice

Memory spreads for your bullet journal: the quiet practice of deciding what was worth keeping
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