Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 hours agoHumanity's Report Card: How Bad Is It, Really?
Humanity's overall grades for thriving are low, with survival odds at 67% and a critical failure in planetary harmony.
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17 hours agoIn my apartment block's Room of Unlimited Magical Recycling Possibilities' I found not just freebies, but friends
The magic room was a community effort, maintained by many residents volunteering their time to keep it well organised and running smoothly. I often saw my neighbour, Wendy Showyin, when I stopped by.
Renovation
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals
Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.
Non-profit organizations
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoEarth Day Is for the Planet. What About the People Protecting It? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Conservationists face moral injury from witnessing environmental harm without adequate support, highlighting the psychological toll of their commitment to protecting the planet.
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
7 hours agoPsychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals
Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
7 hours agoPsychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals
Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
12 hours agoThe people who never ask follow-up questions about their friends' lives aren't disinterested. They're often so used to managing their own internal noise that taking on someone else's details feels like adding weight to a system already running at capacity - Silicon Canals
Conversations often avoid deeper topics due to cognitive load and emotional capacity, leading to surface-level exchanges.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoI'm 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to - psychology calls it "fawning" and once you see it you can't unsee it - Silicon Canals
Fawning behavior leads to difficulty in saying no, causing resentment despite self-awareness and understanding of its irrationality.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoThree disasters in three years: Brazil's deadly floods show women are the first to die' when extreme weather hits
The mudslide in Petropolis in February 2022 killed 233 people, and displaced many more. Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have displaced 250 million people globally, equivalent to 70,000 people forced from their homes every day.
Environment
Agriculture
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoA Vision of Food Justice, Collective Care, and Safety | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Food and medicine are interconnected, yet food policy often separates them, impacting access and equity in food justice.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the people who come across as genuinely disciplined aren't grinding through willpower or running on motivation, they're the ones who quietly removed the decisions from their day a long time ago, and what looks like iron self-control from the outside is just a life designed so the hard choice rarely shows up - Silicon Canals
Building a disciplined life relies on well-designed systems rather than sheer willpower or grit.
fromBig Think
4 days agoEverything you eat is sunlight. Scientists want to cut out the middleman.
To fuel our bodies, we must eat other living things, killing them in the process. However, most plants and algae are autotrophs. They bootstrap their biomass without the barbarism of eating others: using photosynthesis, turning sunlight, water, and carbon into energy.
Philosophy
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe people who never ask for help aren't independent. They learned somewhere along the way that needing something from someone always came with an invoice they couldn't afford to pay - Silicon Canals
Self-reliance often stems from early experiences that teach individuals to avoid asking for help, leading to a belief that needing others is a failure.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days agoA catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you've heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Billionaires' wealth accumulation leads to political control, tax avoidance, and environmental degradation, risking catastrophic climate events like the collapse of oceanic circulation systems.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoResearch suggests the habit of deferring happiness - 'I'll enjoy life when the kids leave, when I retire, when things calm down' - isn't patience, it's a pattern that simply moves the horizon forward no matter how much you achieve - Silicon Canals
Delaying happiness for future rewards leads to increased misery in the present without guaranteeing future satisfaction.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says deep thinkers don't realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn't depression - it's that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave - Silicon Canals
Chronic detachment often misdiagnosed as depression or stress may stem from a learned behavior of observing rather than experiencing life.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe quietest kind of exhaustion belongs to people who translate themselves into a different version for every social context in a single day, and by evening they aren't tired from activity, they're tired from the number of identities they had to maintain - Silicon Canals
Identity-switching fatigue is a modern epidemic caused by the need to perform different roles throughout the day.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoNot everyone who keeps a small social circle is protecting their energy. Some of them built a wide one once, watched it reveal exactly how many people would show up during an actual emergency, and quietly restructured around the answer - Silicon Canals
Small social circles often result from past crises that reveal true friendships, rather than a preference for fewer connections.
fromMindful
2 months agoCan Compassion Save the Planet?
When British author Karen Armstrong won the TED prize in 2008, she used the money to convene a group of religious thinkers from a wide range of faiths to craft an updated version of the Golden Rule for the 21st century. What emerged was the Charter for Compassion, which calls on people around the world "to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and put another there, and to honor the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect."
Philosophy
Mental health
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 month agoHow to Counsel for Climate Anxiety | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Climate anxiety cases among therapists have surged dramatically, with demand for mental health support addressing climate-related grief, anxiety, and despair increasing significantly across multiple countries.
Environment
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoOur Missing Climate Tools Are Psychological and Evolutionary
Humans must evolve culturally and deliberately through effective decision-making to manage climate challenges, overcoming short-term thinking as animals demonstrate rapid evolutionary adaptation to environmental change.
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