Tag: mental-health
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The Reckoning: When Self-Forgiveness is Your Toughest Assignment
As the great Anne Lamott so charmingly put it, “Forgiveness means you’ve decided not to kill them.” A lovely sentiment, really. We hand out that kind of grace like it’s a participation trophy, don’t we? It’s easy, almost a performance art. We stand on our moral high ground, nodding sagely at someone else’s obvious character…
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The Compassionate Contagion: How Empathy Becomes a Revolutionary Act
We’ve turned the entire world into a single, global comment section, where every headline is a starting gun and every opinion is a battle cry. But for a great many people, that isn’t a game; it’s just Tuesday. It’s the daily reality of a queer person calculating their personal safety before holding a partner’s hand,…
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The Unexpected Grace of Imperfection: Finding Meaning in Our Flaws
Let’s be honest, the modern world is absolutely obsessed with perfection. We’ve become a society of curated feeds, filtered selfies, and highlight reels. Every waking moment is a thinly veiled attempt to project an ideal that, frankly, none of us can actually sustain. We’re all sprinting on a hamster wheel of flawless execution, trying desperately…
JUSTIN LOCKRIDGE 