I’ve always felt a quiet envy toward people who could introduce themselves with just one word."I'm a doctor.""I'm a photographer.""I'm a dancer." There’s a kind of comfort in that, isn’t there? A clarity. A clean box you can tuck yourself into and present to the world like a polished LinkedIn headline. That was never my story. For years, I thought there was something wrong with me. My inability to generate myself a single label felt like failure, like I hadn’t landed anywhere

“Studying the impact of the natural world on the brain is actually a scandalous ly new i dea.”— Richard Louv, author of  Last Child in the Woods It should have been studied 30-50 years ago. So why now? Perhaps because we are losing our connection to nature more dramatically than ever. Thanks to a confluence of technology, modern lifestyles, and shifting demographics, we’ve moved further away from the natural world than any generation before us. In 2008, for the first time in

Have you ever noticed how being constantly available to others ends up hurting you? We say yes out of habit, reply instantly, stay...

We all long for freedom. Not just political or physical freedom, but the kind that lives quietly inside us. But what is  freedom, really?...

"At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu Deep within us lies a well of wisdom, an intuition that knows what is right, even when fear clouds our vision. Yet, too often, fear takes control, drowning out our inner knowing with alarm bells and doubt . When we learn to tame our fear center, the amygdala, we regain access to our intuition, making decisions from a place of clarity, courage, and trust rather than

Imposter syndrome is the persistent feeling of self-doubt and inadequacy despite evident success. It convinces us that we are frauds,...

The holiday season can feel like a test of endurance. There is pressure from so many directions: family expectations, social invitations, cultural or religious assumptions, financial strain, and the endless comparison machine of social media. It all can feel like a sociological experiment in how much pressure a human nervous system can absorb. Surveys consistently show that a majority of people report heightened anxiety, depression, and financial stress at this time of year,

Can we lose ourselves? Can we find ourselves again? Yes, and yes. In Luis Felipe Lomelí’s haunting micro story El Emigrante , a single...