Tag: mental-health

  • Relational Curiosity

    Relational Curiosity

    You just had a pleasant first date. Conversation flowed, playlists were swapped, and nobody tried to sell you crypto. Yet forty‑eight hours later you’re staring at your phone, wondering how the same person who laughed at your dad jokes vanished into the void of delivered‑but‑unread messages. If that scenario feels familiar, you’re bumping into something…

  • Journaling for Progressive Dating

    Journaling for Progressive Dating

    Socially conscious dating is an approach to dating that expands on intentional dating. It includes the revision of preferences and values for greater relational wellbeing in a world marked by social inequality. The following is a guided journalling exercise to help make these ideas practicable. Step 1: Describe what you find attractive Do you have…

  • Engaged Presence

    Engaged Presence

    In this post, I talk about how some wisdom traditions have interpreted mindfulness of the present moment as a way to get outside of time. Taking a different tack from this tradition, I show how an engaged presence represents a deeper intimacy with time.