Culture - Sanity by Tanmoy (Page 7)

Culture

Let's talk: How to feel good about food again

Food was the only form of pleasure I allowed myself without guilt. I am afraid I am losing it, and I don't want to.

An ewe mourning her lamb in the painting Anguish by August Friedrick Schenck.

Radical Hope

Cybergrief has no unsubscribe button

My fantasy is to be able to choose my grief. I want to mark as spam all the grief in the world that I cannot handle. But grief born on the internet doesn't care for my fantasy.

Four white pendulums against a red background. The leftmost pendulum is swinging towards the far left.

Culture

Let's talk: Has the mental health pendulum really swung too far?

Are we creating a culture where celebrating healing and recovery is ridiculed and demonised?

A note pad with a single sheet attached to a cliboard, and a pencil placed horizontally at the centre. Red and black blended

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.

Radical Hope

🌻 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.

Crying Women (Plačúce ženy) by Mikuláš Galanda | Wikimedia Commons

Culture

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.

Culture

🎟 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.