Psyche Magazine

2 months ago | psyche.co | Vincent Ho

What to do Make lifestyle changes to protect your gut healthThe most significant steps you can take to protect your gut health concern your diet. However, before I share some specific dietary advice with you, here are some basic lifestyle interventions that can also help you maintain a healthy gut:Practise good sleep hygiene.

Jan 16, 2025 | psyche.co | David Benatar

While honouring people’s preferred pronouns, we’ve begun to neglect forms of formal address. Perhaps we need a rethinkReferring to people by their preferred pronouns has come to be seen by many people, at least in Western societies, as mandated not merely by manners but also by morality. People include their pronoun preferences in their email footers and declare them on name badges. Those who do not announce their preferences often have these solicited.

Dec 12, 2024 | psyche.co | Christopher J. Hopwood

Emotional ‘emptiness’ is a damaging, underexplored phenomenon. Better understanding it could help steer people to fulfilmentIt is not difficult to imagine feeling mentally overstuffed. Your thoughts race, your emotions surge, and you might do things such as lash out at people you care about, cry uncontrollably or make decisions you wouldn’t have made if you’d thought them through. Most people have felt this way at least once in their lives, usually during periods of intense stress.

Dec 11, 2024 | psyche.co | Scott Shigeoka

What to do Detach: let go of your ABCs (assumptions, biases and certainty)Everyone makes assumptions, carries biases and believes with certainty. These are shortcuts that help us to make sense of the world and provide us with reassuring feelings of security. Detaching from them therefore involves unlearning the things you feel are true about yourself, others and the world around you. This will help you access deep curiosity and change the way you perceive and interact with other people.

Dec 8, 2024 | psyche.co | Leonie Mercedes

By the time an adult learns they’re autistic, they have often been covering up for years. A period of self-discovery awaitsRealising that you are autistic as an adult can bring about a lot of feelings: relief to finally have answers; anger that it has taken so long; regret about what might have been if you’d known earlier. What also awaits, for many, is confusion. People diagnosed as adults commonly have been masking for most of their lives.