How to Live
Ideas and advice about well-being, happiness, and mental health.
How to Live
> Being generous and gentle with ourselves isn’t just nice (which it is), it’s also logical. You did what you did.
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> Purpose arrived later, hiding inside the nervous grin of a sophomore from Karachi preparing her first oral argument. Her hands trembled, voice cracked, but she never stepped back. We worked through the night, chopping lines, punching transitions, rehearsing counters. Two months later she stood in a law school... See more
Kaylensubstack.comPurpose, passion, drive, the “why”
How to stay calm (without any hacks)
Greg Isenberg nails it with this system.
Tim Denningsubstack.com“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts
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> caring for your mind sometimes means letting it try on explanations without committing to any of them. you don’t owe clarity before bed.
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Time to post this one again! It’s a yearly tradition. A note that this is really for folks living in the Northern Hemisphere — if that’s not you, save it for six months from now! /// I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a thousand times: it’s hard to be a good animal when you are a human living inside capitalist systems of oppression. We have... See more
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> when everything feels blurry, i pick one sentence to hold onto for the day. something i’ve underlined in a book or overheard on a podcast or written in an old note. not a quote that sounds wise. a sentence that sounds true. and i carry it like a little emotional snack.
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> we’ve absorbed the vocabulary of healing so well, we forget it’s not the same as healing itself. we think if we can name the feeling, we’ve done the work. but naming isn’t the same as processing. insight isn’t the same as integration.
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If the world feels too heavy, that’s your sign to lighten up. ✨
Not by ignoring reality, but by making sure you don’t get buried under it.
Joy isn’t frivolous.
Beauty isn’t indulgent.
Rest isn’t weakness.
These things keep you whole so... See more
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