Courage Is It Finally Time For You to Step Up? Decide You can never go back. You can rise up from failures, screw-ups, and falls. But you can never go back. You may not have signed up for a hero’s journey. But hurt happens. It happens to all of us. The second you fell down, get your butt kicked, suffered a disappointment, screwed up, or felt […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 10, 2017June 10, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage The Crucial Starting Point: To Deal with Criticism The critic knows how to take something apart. But not how to assemble it. The critic will say. I’m just being brutally honest. Do you like anything that’s brutal, including honesty? I don’t. Honesty is honesty. But honesty that’s motivated by shame, anger, fear or hurt. Is not “honesty.” It’s shame, anger, fear and hurt. […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage The Counter Intuitive Truth About Life Life is messy. Nothing rarely goes to plan. If it goes to plan. The plan will change. The plan implies control. Do you feel in control? I don’t. Control is an illusion. From clever men. Who believe they can control the ocean. Or tame it. The ocean is the ocean. The hope is to navigate […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interview Vulnerability Interview: Fiachra O’Sullivan What is vulnerability to you? Vulnerability for me is to feel. To feel sad, fear, abandoned, powerless, alone, rejected, and shame. What vulnerability feels like to you? Vulnerable me is ever-present. It is me as my most indivisible self. Written by Joel Mwakasege May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Growth Winning is an Attitude: Winners do not Whine they Roar You were born to win. To be a winner. You must plan to win. Prepare to win. And expect to win. The main difference between losers and winners. Is in what they do. A winner is someone who has given his best effort. Who tried the hardest he can. Use every ounce of energy and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Be Yourself Deal with it Life is struggle, and the struggle is real. You will get lonely sometimes. People you respect and admire will betray your trust. What brought you joy will turn into a source of sadness and tears. Crying might be alright for a while. But at the end of the day. You need to get up and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Success Here Come New Ideas for Success Every day when I wake up. I always think of what I should do next. To become successful. My idea of success. Is having a roof over my head. Food on the table. An amazing wife that is in love with me. Kids that laugh, play, and don’t starve a day. A company I own […] Written by Joel Mwakasege March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life 3 Health Problems Caused by Fast Food Health problems caused by fast food are extremely dangerous. Before you finish reading this essay 5 people will be dead because of its effects. And I’m bearing the brunt of a string of terrible choices I made over the course of the last eleven months. Thinking retrospectively, I’m not entirely sure what drove these choices, […] Written by Grant Taylor-Hill January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Susan Cain on How to Accept Being an Introvert How to accept being an introvert comes with its challenges. I love psychology and self-help books, so I had previously come across the terms introversion and extraversion. The constructs were popularized by Carl Jung in his exploration of personality, which has become a central dimension in some human personality theories and has been a hot […] Written by Aulaa January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal 5 Causes of Psychological Disorders Causes of psychological disorders remain ever elusive. But occasionally psychological problems occur; When our internal signals don’t work, When our maps don’t lead us where we need to go, When we are too paralyzed to move, When our actions do not correspond to our needs, When our relationships break down. If you feel safe and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 15, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life The Additional Reason Why It Takes Longer to Heal Traumatic Experiences Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the traumatic experiences were still going on. Unchanged and immutable as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past. To heal is when you realize and remember “that was then and this is now,” rather than reliving the experience over and over. The […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interview How to Live with a Chronic Illness, Featuring Sara Norrad Joel. Talk to me about your life from kindergarten. Sarah Norrad. I think my first memory of kindergarten was crying, crying because my mom had left. So that was a shocking experience for me to not be with my mother. I do think it’s a hard moment, for the child and the parent when it’s […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 12, 2021January 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Anxious 4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Anxious How to Journal for Anxiety and Depression: 3 Things to Journal About In my first year of college, I was anxious all the time. It was likely a result of not sleeping enough combined with stress. The pinching feeling in my chest haunted me to the extent that I couldn’t sleep at night. For me, anxiety manifests in a quick heartbeat and a tight feeling in my […] Written by Amy Tang January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life A Day In the Life of a Depressed Person I feel the soft cushion of my bed against my back. I see my dog laying on the ground. My eyes open, and I could feel the stiffness of my neck, worsening by the second as I slowly wake up. I must have moved around so much that my dog couldn’t take it anymore and […] Written by Leo Campos January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life My Boyfriend Came Out As Transgender I was in a long-term relationship and after nearly 5 years together my boyfriend came out as transgender to me. I will refer to them as “she” and “them” from now on because I believe those are the pronouns they would use. I still distinctly remember the day she came out to me. I remember […] Written by Madeleine January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Try These 7 Ways to Find Joy Working Full Time With a Baby from Home After watching the virus spread across the nation and the government mandate to shut down non-essential businesses, I was forced to close the office. It was the start of working full time with a baby girl. I thought it would be a struggle but it turned out to be one of the best experiences of […] Written by Brian Meert December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Business Who Are We If Not the Stories We Tell Ourselves The stories we tell ourselves shape who we are. In middle school, a few kids always teamed up at recess to make sure I never won any of the games we played. I dreaded foursquare, wall ball, and tetherball. Nobody ever wanted to be on my team during PE Class. The harder I tried, the […] Written by Joseph J. Lam December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life 7 Reasons Why Not Getting What You Want Can Be a Blessing For a brief moment around the age of 10, I wanted to be a flight attendant. I’m not 100% sure why. I had never even been on an airplane before. It may have been because you had to be really “pretty” to be a flight attendant. And every awkward little girl wants to feel pretty. […] Written by Nicole Bryan December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Journal for Anxiety and Depression: 3 Things to Journal About In my first year of college, I was anxious all the time. It was likely a result of not sleeping enough combined with stress. The pinching feeling in my chest haunted me to the extent that I couldn’t sleep at night. For me, anxiety manifests in a quick heartbeat and a tight feeling in my […] Written by Amy Tang January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Journal for Anxiety and Depression: 3 Things to Journal About In my first year of college, I was anxious all the time. It was likely a result of not sleeping enough combined with stress. The pinching feeling in my chest haunted me to the extent that I couldn’t sleep at night. For me, anxiety manifests in a quick heartbeat and a tight feeling in my […] Written by Amy Tang January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Story of an Indian girl-seeking her identity Sitting in my study, looking out the window to the grey of monsoon. Thundering clouds and cold sharp breeze, makes me wonder about the years that have passed. Just like a painters promise to its blank canvas, it was hindsight’s promise of realization to me. Lived an itinerant life, my family moved around a lot […] Written by Yashi Rana November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Pregnancy During a Pandemic PREGNANCY DURING A PANDEMIC is different. Everyone is experiencing a different version of the current pandemic. Some are still doing an excellent job in the health sector, collecting our rubbish and serving us in supermarkets. Others are at work or working from home in a way they’ve never done before. Written by Karen Love June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
