Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
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.
🎧 Raw ep 3: Faith vs therapy
When therapy refuses to engage with a client's faith, it's elitist and racist.
🌻 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.
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.
🎟 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.
Radical hope
How do we heal from this carnage?
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Covid has given me a whole new terror of numbers.
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.
Meet the humans of the Kindness Economy
Nightmares. Exhaustion. Relentless stress. And yet, they won't trade their work for anything in the world.
Launching 'Raw', a new podcast | Ep 1: When can I have your medicines, papa?
A story about parenting with mental illness.
"When can I have your medicines, papa?"
An out-of-schedule story about parenting, because my heart is bursting and I cannot keep this to myself.
Is science the new hope for mental health at the workplace?
Four-day weeks? Online yoga? A new global project says employers must stop shooting in the dark in the name of 'employee happiness' and adopt science-based approaches.