What To Do Instead Of Picking Up Your Phone
You sit down after dinner, the phone is in your hand before you've decided anything, and an hour later you get up feeling worse. That isn't...
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In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes
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Why The Same Problem Follows You Everywhere
You left the job, or the friendship, because of how you were treated, and now the same thing is starting again somewhere new. That isn't fat...
What To Do When You Can't Stand Not Knowing
You're waiting to hear about something important, and not knowing how it'll turn out is keeping you awake at night. Nothing's wrong with you...
How To Recover From Burnout When You Can't Take Time Off
Everything written about burnout assumes you can stop. Take a sabbatical, book the trip, step back for a while. And you're reading it at ten...
How To Stop People Pleasing Without Feeling Guilty
You said yes again to someone, and you didn't want to say yes. You knew it while you were saying it. This one is about what happens on the r...
What Watching Short Videos Does To Your Brain
You sat down with a book last night, got through about three pages, and then your hand went to your phone. You weren't bored. You just could...
What's Actually Happening When You Go Cold On Someone
Somebody says something and you feel yourself close. Your face goes still, something in your chest shuts, and what comes out afterwards is p...
Why You Can't Relax Even When Nothing's Wrong
The children are settled, nobody's ill, you've got the weekend free, and there's still something in your chest that won't settle down. Most...
Why Your Worst Thoughts Arrive In The First 30 Minutes
You're awake before you've decided to be, and the thinking has already started, and it isn't kind. Sometimes it's about today. Often it's mu...
Why You Judge People You Don't Even Know
You're in the supermarket queue and a woman speaks sharply to her little boy, and the verdict is there before you've finished looking at her...
Why The Same Thought Turns Up Every Time It's Hard
You have one. The move to the coast, the leaving of the job, the if I could just get the weight off. Whatever goes wrong this week, that sam...
Why You're Not Your Own Best Friend (And How To Fix It)
You dropped something this morning, and you heard what you said to yourself. It was quick and flat and it barely registered, and you've been...
Why You Don't Need to Forgive to Find Peace
There's a person. You didn't have to think about it, they just arrived. And somebody once told you to forgive them, and you wanted to put a...
Before the Story Starts
You've never actually felt most of your feelings. You've had positions about them instead. If you can be in real distress at a dinner party...
When the Ground Disappears
There's a kind of terror that isn't about the bad news. It's about not knowing yet. If you're standing in your own life waiting for somebody...
You Say You're Fine. Then You Resent Them For Believing You
Somebody asked how you were this week and you said fine, and you said it beautifully, because you've had a lot of practice. Then later somet...
Snapping At People You Love? You're Not A Bad Person
You heard your own voice come out sharper than the situation deserved, and you've been quietly worried ever since that this is who you're be...
How Dolly Parton Made People Feel Bigger, Not Smaller
You know the people who walk into a room and everyone in it sits up a little straighter, and somewhere along the way you decided you're just...
Your Mother Has Never Said I Love You. Try This
There is a woman who has never once said "I love you." Not to her daughter, not to her granddaughter. If you have someone like that, you've...
Arguing With Someone In Your Head? How To Stop
You've had the same argument with your sister forty times and never once out loud. This usually gets filed under overthinking, and you've pr...