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The virtues of boredom
Actually, some boredom is good for brains.
Firstly, the act of tuning out of external stimuli activates a part of the brain that is critical for creativity: the imagining network, or default mode network (DMN.) This is the reflective, meaning-making area of the brain. It can pull us away from our current context or... See more
Actually, some boredom is good for brains.
Firstly, the act of tuning out of external stimuli activates a part of the brain that is critical for creativity: the imagining network, or default mode network (DMN.) This is the reflective, meaning-making area of the brain. It can pull us away from our current context or... See more
Why it matters that our teens are bored
by Jenny Anderson (Substack How to Be Brave)
17. All kids ever want is you. Your full undivided attention. Even twenty minutes of that in a day is better than a whole afternoon of scrappy conversations and phone scrolling.
Annie Macmanus • Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
what I’ve witnessed destroy my profession from the inside out. Modern therapy culture fuses three toxic forces: psychiatry’s reduction of all suffering to genetic flaws and chemical imbalances requiring drugs; academic materialism that denies any spiritual dimension to human experience; and progressive orthodoxy that sees only oppression in... See more
Diagnosing Our Daughters
Every difficult emotion navigated without medication builds capacity for life’s challenges. Our ancestors knew this. They didn’t have therapists for heartbreak or pills for disappointment. They had community, ritual, and the understanding that suffering is part of becoming.
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My worry is that when morality is relative, therapists become the new
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This is one way parents can protect teens from the mental health harms of social media
Jenny Andersonsubstack.com