There are days when it feels like life is tossing waves at you from every direction: Responsibilities, emotions, expectations, social pressure, the random anxiety you didn’t order but somehow got delivered anyway. And somewhere in all of that noise, you catch yourself reacting on autopilot, swept up by everything around you without even realizing it. For the longest time, I didn’t notice how often I lived in that reactive state, jumping from one emotion to the next, one thoug

Every year around this time, the world suddenly becomes obsessed with “gratitude.” It shows up in commercials, on decorative pillows at Target, and in the annual parade of social media posts where people list what they’re thankful for. It’s like the entire planet starts throwing the word thankful around like confetti. But let’s be honest… this season is complicated. Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving. Some don’t believe in it.Some have painful histories tied to it.Some are

“Ignorance is bliss.” It’s a phrase that drifts easily off the tongue, like a sigh of relief… as if not knowing could spare us from the heaviness of living. And sometimes, it does. Children prove this best: before they learn the weight of responsibility, their joy runs unburdened, their laughter untouched by what waits beyond the horizon. As we grow older, we learn to trade that innocence for awareness, yet part of us still longs for the simplicity of not knowing. We call it