Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
🌻 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.
"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.
The miracle no one asked for: how 2020 cured my (our) awful holiday depression
The holiday season brings out my darkest moods. But in a year where trauma overwrote trauma, I finally became free.