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May 29, 2026
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Doer- Done to: Notes on Bullying

Bullying didn't stay in the schoolyard. It grew up, put on a tie, learned to smile, and now runs the world.
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May 28, 2026
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Behind the ‘Sliding Scale’

Money, it turns out, is where all the things you were taught not to want come back, in disguise, demanding to be reckoned with.
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May 28, 2026
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Thumb Tired Yet?

Your thumb is not scrolling. It's looking for something the internet borrowed and forgot to return.
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May 28, 2026
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The Epidemic of Loneliness

The loneliest people in the room are often the ones who taught everyone else how to be less alone.
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May 28, 2026
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Confusions 101

Confusion, it turns out, is not the opposite of knowing. It is what knowing looks like just before it arrives.
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May 28, 2026
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Where Rage Goes to Hide

Rage, if you follow it long enough, leads you somewhere softer and much more frightening: to the thing you lost.
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May 09, 2026
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The Process of Analytic Writing

Anar Dana, our resident feline philosopher, breaks her writing hiatus to share why even cats get writer's block.
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May 09, 2026
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Think ‘out of the box’, but stay ‘inside the lines’

Anar Dana calls out the contradiction in teaching kids to be creative while training them to stay perfectly in line.
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May 09, 2026
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Let’s Talk Supervision!

A late-night reflection on why bad supervisors leave deeper marks than bad training ever could.
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May 09, 2026
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“Play is the work of a child.” — Maria Montessori

Watching a two-year-old stubbornly claim his time with a harmonium got me thinking: when did we stop playing?
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May 09, 2026
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The Material Heat and the Psychic Heat

The heat outside is quietly melting our mental health too, and we need to talk about it.
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May 08, 2026
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Reading a novel without Curiosity

A playful dive into what psychoanalysis teaches us about play, and why most of us quietly gave it up.
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May 08, 2026
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Rhythms of the Unconscious

There's no app for it, but your rhythm of thinking, feeling and being might be the most important thing to tune into.
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May 07, 2026
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Not everything is a “Trigger”, and yet…

Therapy-speak has escaped the therapy room, and our feline philosopher has thoughts about what we're really saying.
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May 07, 2026
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New Year starts in Feb. 

Returning is its own kind of beginning. Ask anyone who has ever come back to something they thought they had left.
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Jan 16, 2026
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Dr Claudia Sheftel-Luiz: From Freudian Psychoanalysis to Modern Psychoanalysis

A dialogue on emotional inheritance.
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Jan 16, 2026
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The Inevitability of ‘Routines’

Before there was a to-do list, there was a rhythm, older and stranger and far more honest about what you actually need.
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Jan 16, 2026
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Psychoanalysis and Play

Somewhere between the child you were and the adult you became, play went underground. This is where you find it again.
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Jan 16, 2026
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The Impossible task called ‘Writing’!

Writing is not what you do when you have something to say. It is what you do to find out what you've been carrying.
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Jan 16, 2026
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Demystifying ‘Dependency’ in Relationships

The most radical thing you can do, it turns out, is need someone and trust them enough to let them know.
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Jan 16, 2026
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Climate Change and Mental Health

The earth is not merely changing climate. It is holding up a mirror to everything we have refused to feel.
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