humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
Addiction Recovery Guide. Breaking Free & Staying Resilient.
Being addicted to either something and/or someone is more common than you think. It is commonplace and natural to think of drugs, food and drinks (mainly the alcoholic variety) when it comes to addictions; yet people can be addicted to a myriad of substances, people, and circumstances. What starts as an obsession breeds an addiction.
By Justine Crowleyabout a month ago in Psyche
When Life Gets Too Much
"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm; when we look at each other, we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
By Elizabeth Woodsabout a month ago in Psyche
Reality is a Spectrum
Disclaimer; Sorry for the unedited stream of conciousness writing! As I was relaxing and listening to one of my favorite songs, a striking thought suddenly materialized in my head. Why do people enjoy certain things? What causes you to have a favorite color, food, or song? Are popularly liked things actually objectively better than the less popular ones?
By PhilosophyPathabout a month ago in Psyche
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Psyche
The House That Waited. AI-Generated.
The house appeared on the road one evening without warning. Kareem was certain of it because he drove that road every day. Same turns. Same cracked asphalt. Same dead tree leaning toward the street like it was tired of standing. There had never been a house there before.
By shakir hamidabout a month ago in Psyche
Resistance Is Not the Enemy
Iron sharpens iron. Brakes save lives. Friction preserves form. Modern culture treats resistance as failure. Anything that slows momentum is framed as obstruction, anything that introduces friction is assumed to be opposition, and anything that interrupts progress is labeled a setback. But this instinct misunderstands how both physical systems and human growth actually work. Resistance is not inherently hostile. In many cases, it is the only thing preventing collapse.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Psyche
The Refiner’s Fire Is Not the Whetstone
There is a difference between being sharpened and being transformed, and confusing the two leads to frustration when growth does not feel productive. Sharpening implies refinement of existing form. Fire implies change in composition. Both processes are uncomfortable, but they operate on different levels and for different purposes. When people expect sharpening and receive fire instead, they often assume something has gone wrong, when in reality something deeper is taking place.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Psyche
