SAM Frida

For years, we’ve been told to toughen up. To grow thicker skin. To not take things so personally. But what if the people who feel everything, who notice the subtle shift in someone’s tone, who sense when something’s off before anyone says a word, who absorb the energy...

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make life harder for themselves?They could just accept the job that pays well. Follow the path that works for everyone else. Stop questioning things that don’t need to be questioned. But they don’t. They can’t, and not...

Have you ever dated someone and realized months later that you weren’t actually in love with them, you were in love with who you imagined they were? That gap between the person in your head and the person standing in front of you is what psychologist Carl Jung spent...

Listen to Coldplay’s “Fix You” (or the version I prefer below the post) when you’re broken, and you hear a promise: someone will save me. Listen to it after years of growth, therapy, and learning to sit with your own complexity, and you hear something else...

We say the word so easily. Truth. We toss it around in conversations, claim to value it, insist we want it. But do we really understand what it means to hold it? To live inside it? To let it rearrange everything you thought you knew about yourself and the people...

I was watching Steven Bartlett’s podcast with Jefferson Fisher, and he dropped something that stopped me mid-scroll:“The quality of the relationship depends on the quality of the communication.”That’s it. That’s the whole thing.Not the depth of your feelings. Not how...

Authentic people aren’t performing for you. They’re not curating a version of themselves hoping you’ll approve. They’re simply refusing to lie to themselves.That’s the distinction most people miss. Speaking your truth isn’t about being heard. It’s not even about being...

I thought if I was perfect enough, gentle enough, successful enough, love would settle in and stay this time. But the rules kept changing, and every approval I earned dissolved into silence a moment later. Then something broke, not in anger, but in clarity. I stopped...

Fair and right are easy words to say when we are not the ones on the stand. Watching Haq on Netflix, what hits hardest is not just the story, but the way “justice” keeps shifting depending on who has the power to define it. A woman stands in a courtroom asking for...