Studying psychology made me believe humans are incredibly complex. Learning the body made me understand we're profoundly simple.

What do you notice about this picture?

internalising that there is no one but yourself to prove your worthiness to was the biggest unlock for me

Someone asked me why I think we use food to manage our emotions. Because, I said, for our first years of life, food and love are one and the same. You are hungry, your greatest source of love shows up, you stop being hungry. I don’t know that we ever fully decouple the two.

A 🧵 on burnout Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important. 1/ #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™ Academic Encouragement

Any recs for books that explain why it can be harder for men to form close friendships?

A beautiful African proverb—'The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth'

What if the secret to great conversations is not give-and-take, but take-and-take? experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-convers…

Safety in relationships = 'I will never let you fail me without providing a subsequent opportunity for success.' (via Kasia Urbaniak)

Can someone please recommend a psychedelics facilitator training that's not led almost exclusively by white people? It's embarrassing looking at these faculty lists.

Forget sex - the most taboo conversation topics you can ever have w your friends is about money. I know way more about people’s kinks than their net worth and I’m beginning to realize the shame of being a prude is nothing compared to the shame of being poor

So eloquently put ♥️ Thank you for joining and being so honest with me about what you experienced

Ok... I think I just figured something out. You know how everyone says "it's hard to make friends as an adult". I just accepted that was true. But what if it has nothing to do with "being an adult" and everything to do with years of nervous system dysregulation? 1/ 🧵

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:

Please send us help.

📣 *Ahem* ~ announcment time... 🚀 Enrollment doors for Nervous System Mastery are officially open! 🫁 Here's the promise: if you're willing to commit to showing up for 5 weeks — these ideas + practices will change your life. 👨‍🎓 Apply here → nsmastery.com