Make Your Damn Bed

Psychology has historically focused its research on adverse childhood experiences. There is growing research on benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs). BCEs are correlated with flourishing and the l…

"A person's past can direct what they think, what they feel, how they behave, and how they interact.The influence of one's past self can often be unhealthy for one's present self. Empathy, embracing …

today we revisit an older episode that felt really relevant about reframing + escaping survival mode.

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Tides change every day, and so can you. It’s never too late to change your scenery, to change your routine, to change your vibe, or change your perspective. You have some control, and even when you f…

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for me, it starts with getting more comfortable with doing rather than getting it done. i'm a creative and imaginative person, so if i were to plan for every potential experience, i would never stop …

it makes perfect logical sense that we choose to disassociate when we're feeling overwhelmed. if you've been in a perpetual cycle of overwhelm, it may help to focus on creating more space between you…

Disassociation is a standard responses to the trauma we experience from living in a wildly intense society - but, like most things, if we're not careful, we may get caught in a cycle of disassociatio…

Jenny Odell wrote the book "How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" + much to my surprise, it's not just any old 'self help book', this is the real deal. Today, we discuss the concept of …

Disconnecting is an essential practice that I think a lot of us overlook the value of. For me, if I don’t take time to intentionally disconnect once in a while, my body will disconnect for me, withou…

Constant exposure to information and crisis can reduce our ability to react, respond, or move forward with hope. It's incredibly overwhelming to know everything without knowing what to do with it. Yo…

My life is now divided into 2 parts: the pre-Ayesha Khan version of me and the post-Ayesha Khan version of me. I truly started to feel like I was screaming into a void and though people "understood" …

Today we revisit an old nugget: low power mode.

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Sometimes I’m painfully reminded that hope is really all we have. When I am suffering most from the effects of grief, the hopelessness becomes overbearing and all-consuming. It feels impossible to av…

"Hopelessness is often most pervasive among the privileged who are more insulated from from overt violence." - Ayesha Khan

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There are four main roles to play (when it comes to creating social change) and those are the

1. citizen,
2. reformer,
3. rebel,
4. change agent.

Where do you feel the most natural?

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Yesterday I rambled on about power structures and today I want to clarify some of those thoughts. 

Primarily when it comes to the definition of Power. 

When a concept is this abstract it carries a diff…

Empowerment starts as a personal experience, then grows to our close relationships, and eventually becomes the collective. Today, we dig into the concept of power as discussed in Jo Rowland's 1997 wo…

If we become curious about ourselves, we'll start to realize what parts of our identity are really ours vs. what we think other's expect from us.

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just getting back from a trip and a delayed flight means a re-release of a classic.

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