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 The Antidote to Despair Curiosity is an antidote to despair.Despair is the spiritual disease of believing that tomorrow will simply be a repeat of today. Nothing new. The future simply an unbroken string of todays, one after another. But curiosity, curiosity disrupts despair, insisting that tomorrow will not be a repeat of today. Curiosity whispers to you, You’re just getting […] Written by Joe Cardillo April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Why Did I Feel Like Running Away from Home? Why did I feel like running away from home? When I was in the third grade. I ran away from home. Or at least, I tried to — I didn’t quite get past the front door. It was a Chinese exam that had motivated this, or more specifically, my father’s reaction to it. Upon laying […] Written by Nathanael Kusanda April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life I Spent 4 Weeks in a War-Torn Country Pre-cursor to the story. The story involves Palestine and Israel. I will be calling Palestine, Palestine as this is what is officially recognised as by all UN countries apart from 2. I will not get into the conflict, nor the wrongs or rights of each side. This piece is not a political statement. All images […] Written by Jack K.M. April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life As a child, I got bullied While I was a young child, I got bullied for having large ears and obviously for being the new kid. When I was a teenager I got bullied for being gay. Physical features and things I couldn’t change were what I got bullied for. As a child, not great. I couldn’t do anything about it […] Written by Jack K.M. April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life What it Was Like Growing Up With Hoarders It’s hard to overcome your childhood. I have a lot of baggage, which is appropriate considering the house I was raised in. I grew up with two hoarders for parents, in extremely filthy conditions. Now, I go through periods of panic where I attack clutter like an enemy. My wife doesn’t like it, but she […] Written by Tim Ebl April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How I Landed My First Job Out of College I’m writing this article to share a bit more about myself and how I found my first job after college. As the spring semester approaches, many college seniors are dreading the thought of graduating without a job. Although the job market stalled because of COVID-19, there are signs that the job market will pick up […] Written by Brandon Roopnarain April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Trauma A Powerful Key that Resolves Severe Effects of Trauma on The Body Effects of trauma on the body for traumatized people cause them to feel chronically unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. “Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become experts at numbing awareness of what is […] Written by Joel Mwakasege March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life A Letter to My Younger Self: I’m Sorry I Let You Down This is a letter to my younger self as I remember it. At 8 years old, I was jamming to Avril Lavigne’s song “Complicated” on the radio and passionately looking for a way to download that song into my black-and-white-screen phone. I was also thinking: “Damn, Avril Lavigne has got everything, a successful career, and […] Written by Christian Todd March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life 4 Tips on How to Stay Sober From Alcohol at a Party Note: until it’s safe to party in-person, these tips apply to socially-distant, digital events. Before the first party, I went sober, I hadn’t had a drink in five months and was starting to feel socially unfulfilled. A friend of mine was a drummer in an alt-rock band and posted his upcoming show on Instagram which […] Written by Daisy Gumin March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal 4 Deep Questions About Mental Health that Help With Your Healing Four deep questions about mental health arose while talking to my sister about healing recently : 1. Do therapists heal you? The short answer is no, they don’t — you heal yourself. Overwhelmed by all kinds of fears, insomnia, endometriosis, food addiction, and overall dissatisfaction with my life, I too hoped that someone or something […] Written by Andra Cioltan-Draghiciu, PhD March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Benefits of No Alcohol for 3 Years and 3 Fears I Had to Overcome When I first quit drinking apart from the benefits of no alcohol brings I wanted everything in my life to stay exactly the same. The only difference would be that I was no longer drinking. I didn’t want anyone to know if I was drinking or not drinking, and I definitely didn’t want it to […] Written by Heather Lowe March 14, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Facing Difficulties In life and Unexpected Ways You Can Get Help Today I found these earrings in storage, I had no idea where they were for nearly twenty years. The earrings came from the short time I lived in East Jerusalem during the Second Intifada in 2002. I had lived in the West Bank for a year in order to keep a children’s school open during […] Written by Poppy Nagano February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How I Landed My First Job Out of College I’m writing this article to share a bit more about myself and how I found my first job after college. As the spring semester approaches, many college seniors are dreading the thought of graduating without a job. Although the job market stalled because of COVID-19, there are signs that the job market will pick up […] Written by Brandon Roopnarain April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Powerful Key that Resolves Severe Effects of Trauma on The Body Effects of trauma on the body for traumatized people cause them to feel chronically unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. “Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become experts at numbing awareness of what is […] Written by Joel Mwakasege March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Say I Disagree In a Smart Way One of the most troubling aspects of this new hyper-digital era is our crumbling ability to communicate with people who disagree with us. There is the sense that we are shouting across a void at one another — in completely different languages. Our rebuttals are locked and loaded as we scan tweets, posts, and articles […] Written by Kenton Klassen February 9, 2021February 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
7 New Options and Improved Ways On Overcoming Past Trauma The first half of 2020 was particularly dull and difficult. I’m sure many can relate to this. The sudden lockdown forced me to finally think about overcoming past trauma, deeply repressed issues, and long-overdue grief; hence a breakdown was inevitable. Additionally, I had to deal with a range of family issues and the demise of […] Written by Fatimah Alayafi February 5, 2021February 5, 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
