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How long is too long to be affected by trauma? Survivors are often told they should be over it—or that it wasn’t “real” ...

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Are we building a better future - or programming our own irrelevance? The stories we tell about progress may be shaping an ...

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Skeptical about self-compassion? If you value responsibility and/or need a way out of pain, then you need every tool at your disposal, meaning, yes, you need self-compassion, too.

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When something feels off, it can be hard to know where it’s coming from—yourself, your environment, or both. But you don’t ...