Mental Health

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You Against Yourself: What I Learned from David Goggins (Part 2: Huberman Lab)

22 Sep 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Recently, I published part one of this series. (See the "Resources" section below for the link.) Huberman Lab In part 2 (this post), I'm drawing on conversations between David Goggins and Andrew Huberman of Huberman Lab. “Everything I do in life suc...

I Have Lost My Wallet (Well, Part of it)

22 Jun 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

I am considerably annoyed with myself. The reason for that is that I've lost part of my wallet (no, not a crypto wallet, an actual physical wallet that's falling apart). I've lost the part that holds my bank card and driver's license. (The piece in q...

Reducing my Mental Load

25 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Seems that Sensei’s all making more headspace and heart space these days. I wrote about slaying my visual clutter. Today, I will write about reducing my mental load. Do you have a dreaded task that you kinda suppress successfully but still feel it...

Managing Your Mind: Trauma Exposure During Open-Source Investigations

8 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Your brain is the best weapon you have, but it also needs care and attention. In this earlier article, we started to explore the concept of vicarious trauma and looked at the steps we could take to help mitigate the effects of this exposure with rega...

Motivation is Garbage: What I learned from listening to Mel Robbins

4 Sep 2024 8 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

"Motivation is garbage. At some point, we all bought into this lie that you've got to feel ready in order to change. We bought into this falsehood that at some point you're going to have the courage to change, at some point you're going to have the...

If I Felt Anything, I Think it Would Be Anger

4 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Thanks to the pills I'm on, I feel nothing but fine and everything is peachy; no extremes of emotion either way. That, in itself, can be problematic, since my emotional range is limited/blunted and my responses atypical. It's been over a month since...

Trataka: Candle Gazing Meditation

11 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Quick silver

Trataka, also known as candle gazing, is a meditation technique that uses the sense of sight to still the mind. It involves focusing on a specific point, often a candle flame, to cultivate concentration, clarity, and inner awareness. Let’s explore it...

Going through the pain...

8 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Tirria

    Going through the pain... Emotions are like water. How are you going to cross them without getting wet? Going through pain is not about not jumping into the pool to avoid getting wet. It's throwing yourself in and trying to survive the tide. And...

Mental Health in General.

31 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Mental health involves your wellbeing and yout ability to function well without stress. There is no health without Mental health. If anything affects your mental health, it us safe to say you are not healthy. A lot of people don't talk about Mental...

Mental Health issues post COVID

26 Oct 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Bala

It has been several years since we had the COVID pandemic and still many people have not recovered from the pandemic. Some people have not come out of the stress, anxiety, social distancing, and a few other outcomes of the pandemic even though the si...