No, this doesn’t mean “Leave your principles behind and try to cause chaos wherever you go”, it means “Learn to prioritize yourself and stand tall in honor of your individuality”. This concept is often misunderstood as a shift in mentality towards imposing revenge against the world for all the trauma…

Drizzle, darkness and the scent of mud. A tedious week, a hard month, but then there’s him. Dark locks like a Greek hero painted on a fresco, a smile unbothered and an insatiable appetite for pleasurable nothings. “Hah, you came in like a herd of wild horses! …

Karen Horney (1885–1952)— probably the most mother-like figure in psychoanalysis — has introduced her Theory of Neurosis guided by her experience as an analyst, and in opposition with many views upon it at that time. She identified 10 neurotic needs and clustered them into 3 types of neurotics. For these…

Greek mythology is a rather odd place to be extracting modern-day how-to advice. No wonder. People don’t seem to be dueling centaurs, giants, or chimeras anymore, but they definitely often duel stress, insecurities, and trauma, which resemble monsters just as much. …

Anyone can make a list of at least 5 things that make them happy. Some we do regularly, like getting our favorite latte from that funky coffee shop; some we do a few times a year, like going skiing, hiking, or scuba diving. Yet, a few days after returning home…

Anger, frustration, and fear have been alongside us like really insistent stray dogs for a long time now and I bravely assume that, in one way or another, we all have an intimate knowledge of them. Sometimes we take the hits well, our favorite team loses a match or the…

Although most of us hated memorizing the principles of logic back in High School, as many other subjects we rioted against, their utility can not be denied. It’s simply a matter of thinking things through, the right way. Often, we are taken advantage of, based on our inability to assess…