7 Things You Need to Think About When Making Your 2026 New Year Goals
Setting goals for a new year is one of the most hopeful acts a person can perform — and one of the most frequently abandoned. By February, most resolutions are already fading. The reason is rarely lack of motivation. It is almost always lack of clarity, structure, and honest self-knowledge. These seven questions are not […]
7 Reasons Why You Can Never Truly Be Friends With Your Ex, According to Psychologists
Why you can never be friends with your ex is something psychologists have studied extensively. I’ve had this conversation so many times, on both sides of it. The one where you’ve just broken up and one of you — or both of you — says, with genuine sincerity: “I really want us to be friends.” […]
7 Hard Questions You Must Ask Your Partner Before Starting a Family
You love each other. That much is clear. And somewhere in that love — maybe recently, maybe gradually over years — the idea of having a baby together has become real, alive, something you’re both moving towards. Which is wonderful. And also, possibly, the moment to have some conversations you might have been assuming you […]
8 Signs You’re Truly Content With Life (And Why It Feels So Good)
Happiness gets most of the cultural attention. We’re told to pursue it, optimise for it, and evaluate our lives by whether we feel it. But contentment — that quieter, more durable state of being at peace with your life as it is — might actually be the more meaningful goal. And unlike happiness, which can […]
How to Reduce the Impact of AI: 7 Ways to Protect Creativity, Community & the Planet
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the strange position creative people find themselves in right now. We’re watching AI systems produce, in seconds, things that would have taken us hours or weeks — writing, images, music, code. And we’re being asked to have a settled opinion about this, to be either enthusiastically for it […]
7 Ways to Pick Up a Compulsive Liar (Even When They Don’t Realise They’re Lying)
There’s a particular kind of disorientation that comes with realising someone you care about has been lying to you — not occasionally, not about small things, but habitually, reflexively, as a way of navigating the world. It messes with your sense of reality in a way that’s hard to articulate to people who haven’t experienced […]
The Personal Growth Advice Nobody Tells You — Because It Is Harder to Sell
Real personal growth is slower, less comfortable, and considerably harder to monetise. Here is the advice that actually works — but rarely gets written about.
6 Reasons Why It’s Not Cheating If Your Girlfriend Is Caught Kissing Another Girl — According to Psychologists
Few topics in modern dating generate as much confusion, disagreement, and raw emotion as the question of what counts as cheating. In an era of shifting norms around sexuality, gender, and relationship structure, the boundaries that were once assumed are increasingly being questioned — and not always for straightforward reasons. One particular conversation that comes […]
7 Things I Learned About Myself This Thanksgiving: Finding Magic in the Sad Moments
There’s something about Thanksgiving — or any occasion that gathers family in a room, mixes people with complicated histories, and centres around gratitude — that functions like a psychological X-ray. The emotional dynamics you thought you’d transcended resurface. The family patterns you’ve been processing in therapy appear in real time, undeniable and instructive. The moments […]
6 Psychological Signs She’s Attracted to You at the Bar – According to Experts
Reading attraction is notoriously unreliable. We’re simultaneously terrible at detecting genuine interest (missing signals that are clearly there) and overconfident in detecting interest that isn’t (finding meaning in things that are just friendliness or politeness). The research on this is humbling — most people’s accuracy at reading attraction in ambiguous social situations is barely above […]