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Continue reading →: What Pride Month Actually Asks From UsOn Pride Month or any other month, I invite you to choose a part of your legacy to be to create a society (a community!) that is a bit more open, a bit more inclusive, and a bit more compassionate. But I hope that legacy involves speaking out for our…
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Continue reading →: How To Give Discomfort More MeaningDiscomfort oftentimes is a price we have to pay for the lives we want to live. They don’t have to involve politics or prisons, but it’s good to know that “a good life” will probably never mean zero discomfort. So we either try to avoid it or normalise it and…
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Continue reading →: Are There More Dimensions to Our Liberation?
Could there be more dimensions to our liberation? This was the question that came to mind as I was watching an interview with ALOK. ALOK (Alok Vaid-Menon) is a writer, public speaker, and artist whose very existence seems threatening to some. Why? You’ll see it in this interview.
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Continue reading →: The Power of Good Questions
When how to express our needs is never taught, and a direct question is considered rude, learning how to ask for what we need is no small task. So how do we start asking better questions? How do we empower ourselves and cut through confusion in conversations with others?
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Continue reading →: Are You Using Anger As a Fuel?
When times are worrisome (I do mean politics, yes!), we have to be careful not to turn to anger for fuel and not to confuse hatred with a measure of care.
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Continue reading →: Expert Conversations on Trauma, Part 3: Dr. Gabor Maté Returns
Trauma-informed care doesn’t mean every physician has to be a therapist; it means doctors are aware that there can be underlying causes to the pain someone is experiencing. Is the pain coming from chronically oppressing your anger? Has your depression developed due to a strong disconnect from yourself? This is…
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Continue reading →: Can You Lie to Yourself Better?
Neurolinguistic programming tells us that to have a better life, we have to start having better thoughts. But how do we do that? Listen to what Marisa Peer – a therapist, speaker, author, and overall lovely lady – has to say.
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Continue reading →: COVID Lessons, Year 2
“Happy 2-year COVID anniversary!” I thought to myself recently. And decided to do a quick episode on it.
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Continue reading →: A Reminder For When You’re Stressed
Taking care of ourselves when we’re moving through discomfort is not a luxury. We can live without luxuries but we can’t go on if we’re constantly burned out. Here’s my reminder on why it’s important to be kind to ourselves when things are tough and how certain things that seem…
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Continue reading →: How to Have Better Relationships?
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships: so if relationships are at the cornerstone of how we feel, how can we improve this area of our lives? How can we deconstruct what there is to be improved (or, rather, worked on) in the first place?
My name is Justina
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