Most people think the way to escape anxiety or depression is to do more: exercise, work hard, socialize, or change how they think. Activity can help, but there’s a deeper biological truth beneath it.Before the body can generate real happiness, it must first believe it is safe. 1. Two Systems in the Human Body Human … Continue reading Feeling Safe Comes Before Feeling Happy – The Biology of Healing
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The End of the Old World: Why Modern Life Feels So Hollow, Why Marriage is Dying (And What We Can Do About It)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of success—what it means, and more importantly, who gets to define it. By the popular standards of the Western post-1960s model, I should probably consider myself a failure. I didn’t go to prom. I didn’t party in high school. I didn’t even finish school the normal … Continue reading The End of the Old World: Why Modern Life Feels So Hollow, Why Marriage is Dying (And What We Can Do About It)
A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill (And I Found The Answer, Thankfully)
Short version: A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill Introduction This essay is a comprehensive and structured documentation of a philosophical investigation undertaken from a strictly rational, logical foundation. The goal was to examine whether life is meaningful and whether free will exists, without assuming either as a given. … Continue reading A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill (And I Found The Answer, Thankfully)
