Articles and insights on psychology and wellbeing
Defense mechanisms are unconscious responses that shield us from anxiety and inner conflict. This piece looks at the forms they take, how they help us adapt, and the point at which leaning on them too heavily becomes a source of suffering.
Do we really have to recount everything that happened in order to recover? This piece looks at how pain can surface in the body before it finds its words, and why healing sometimes begins with safety, movement, and a relationship that helps us understand what we feel, rather than with analysis alone.
How can a sense of safety take shape outside human relationships? This piece looks at the idea of the non-human attachment figure, from God and pets to the home and our personal belongings, as sources that can offer a safe haven and a secure base in moments of distress.
What does it mean to find a presence that catches the rhythm of our experience without hurrying it or reducing it? A reflection on the idea of attunement, and how emotional attunement creates a space of safety in which what is inside can be seen and held.
A watermelon printed on a stranger's laptop, in a café far from home, was enough to undo the feeling of being invisible. Palestinian symbols carry memory across distance and turn private pain into something held in common. But they stay alive only when they are used with an awareness of where they came from.