There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from looking fine. Not feeling fine, looking it. That’s the performance of peace, and it takes real, constant effort to keep it running. It takes real, constant effort, and most people who are good at it have been...
Silence doesn’t always mean someone is at peace. Often, it means someone has given up, quietly, without announcing it, and started calling that peace instead. This week’s reels looked at two versions of the same moment. One: you don’t forgive people, you just stop...
There is a quiet pride in being called easygoing. Low-maintenance. A good team player. It sounds like a compliment. Often, it is covering for something else entirely. This week’s reels looked at two moments that seem unrelated. One: you’re not easygoing,...
Tuesday’s reel asked how long before you crack. Wednesday’s asked why no one pushes back anymore. They look like two different problems, one personal, one organisational, but they are the same pattern wearing two outfits. The cost of keeping the peace is...
You do not fall apart in the room. You fall apart the second the door closes, or the second the car door shuts behind you. That gap between what you show and what you feel is a delayed emotional reaction, and it is more common, and less shameful, than most people...
You’re kinder to strangers than you are to your own family. Calmer with a difficult client than with the team who actually shows up for you every day. Why is it that the people we love most get the shortest fuse, while total strangers get our absolute best?...
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