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Mental Illness and Reasons to Live
Even if we've never spelled them out, each of us carries within us a private list of 'reasons to live'. Mental illness can threaten these reasons: to…
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How to Make Love Persist Forever
When relationships start, enthusiasm for our partners is typically natural and intense. We think of them constantly, we want only to spend more time …
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How to Learn to Love Oneself More
Self-hatred is a particularly vicious disease which destroys our ability to defend ourselves and to confront enemies. Here are some tips on how to m…
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8 Secrets of a Healthy Mind
Sadly, in most cases, mental illness is a chronic condition: not a one-off, but something that’s likely to recur in the future. Coping requires us to…
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The Quiet Force of Undelivered Letters
A general principle of mental health is that the less we are able to express, the more unwell we get it. Our spirits can lighten and our horizons exp…
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Is It OK to Keep Secrets From Your Partner?
We’re taught that love requires honesty, and that secrets are anathema to healthy relationships. But there may be very noble reasons for concealing t…
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In Conversation: Alain de Botton on Excellent Company with Jamie Laing
Alain de Botton sits down with Jaime Laing on the @GreatCompanyPodcast. Together they dive into such subjects as: What is love? How do we navigate he…
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How Unloving Parents Generate Self-Hating Children
Our sense of self-worth is dependent upon the love we were shown as children. The legacy of an unloving parent may be a lifetime of self-hatred, whic…
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How To Choose A Companion Thoughtfully
We’re given very little guidance on how to choose our partners and tend to leave it to that mysterious force we know as ‘instinct’. However, it truly…
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The Genuine Power of Community
There’s a lot of pressure on us to make our individual lives interesting. But sometimes, the best experiences aren’t those connected up with our pers…
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