A number of friends have been recently reaching out to me for advice more often than usual. My phone is going off constantly and I find myself nodding and asking questions in calls that go on for at least a couple of hours. I know to be prepared now —…

It’s fairly normal hearing people say to anyone who’s undergoing pain to just move on. “Don’t torture yourself”, “smile”, “stop being sad”. And there we go, on a voyage to pretend everything is fine and okay. Numbing becomes our coping mechanism. Smiling over our frowns and faking our power on…

If you are a human just like I, chances are that you have experienced moments of awkwardness and self-doubt. Days in which you simply don’t feel like “yourself”, although such is precisely the only entity you have the ability to be. But what does “being yourself” actually mean? …