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The Things We Don’t Talk About

The thoughts, feelings, experiences, and contradictions we often keep to ourselves because saying them out loud can feel risky. Here, we make room to look at them with curiosity instead of shame.

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    According to the internet, I have reached the age where I would no longer be killed in a horror movie. This sounds like good news. Unfortunately, I have not been promoted to Final Girl. I am now apparently the eccentric local woman standing beside a rural gas station warning a car full of attractive twenty-somethings…

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  • Why Your Brain Hates Uncertainty

    Your brain really, really likes to know what happens next. Not because you’re controlling. Not because you’re bad at change. And not because you need to “be more resilient.” Your brain is constantly using what it knows to anticipate what might happen next. Most of the time, that’s incredibly useful. Until the answer is: We…

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