Author: tamrinamatta

What do you do when a feeling arrives that you would rather not have? For most people, the answer involves some version of management. Push it down, reason your way out of it, distract yourself until it passes, or simply keep moving and hope it doesn’t catch up. These are understandable responses — and in…

At some point today, you will have a thought that presents itself as a fact. Not a possibility, not a perspective — a fact. Something about who you are, how a situation is going to unfold, what someone else thinks of you, or what you are or are not capable of. It will arrive with…

Think about the last time you were irritable for reasons you could not quite explain. Snapping at someone over something small. Feeling a heaviness that did not have a clear origin. Finding yourself exhausted by a conversation that should have been straightforward. Often, these are not random occurrences. They are what happens when things go…

When was the last time someone asked how you were, and you gave them an honest answer? Most of us are quite practised at saying “I’m fine” — not necessarily because we are, but because it is the easier option. It closes the conversation without opening anything we are not sure we can handle. It…