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#422 🔸 Why you judge yourself just as harshly in difficult times as in good ones and what it costs you

27 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  Gratitude towards the flaws that make us human, which I wrote about last time, requires a certain gentleness towards oneself that is hardest to access precisely when it is most needed: in difficult periods. When you are ill, exhausted, grieving, in...

#421 🔸 Why your flaws make you easier to love than you think and how to stop running from them

27 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.07

  The inner dialogue that follows us even into sleep, which I wrote about last time, is often dominated by one central theme: flaws. What is not working, what we have not managed to change, what keeps appearing regardless of effort. That is precisely...

#420 🔸 What the quality of your sleep tells you about what is happening in your head when you are not paying attention

26 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

  Patience with your own blockages, which I wrote about last time, requires a gentler relationship with inner processes. And there is a moment of the day when these processes become fully visible, without filter and without control: the night, during...

#419 🔸 Why some things in you refuse to change no matter how much you work and what to do with that

25 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

  The move from survival to flourishing, which I wrote about last time, is not a straight path. It has ascents and plateaus, moments of clarity and moments when something refuses to move, no matter how much you have worked, no matter how much you hav...

#418 🔸 Why you are functioning in survival mode without realising it and what life looks like when you leave it

25 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

  Liberation from the need for universal approval, which I wrote about last time, is one of the essential conditions for moving from one mode of existence to another. And it is precisely about this transition I want to speak today: from chronic emoti...

#417 🔸 Why you try to please everyone and what you definitely lose if you continue

24 Aug 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.02

Clearing the mental space of the day's residues, which I wrote about last time, frees capacity for what matters. But there is a source of mental residues more persistent than all others and which consumes energy in invisible ways: the obsess...

#416 🔸 Why you feel exhausted even though you have not done anything special and how to clear what has accumulated in you throughout the day

23 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.07

  Healthy pride after a major failure, which I wrote about last time, brings us to a more everyday but equally important dimension of self-care: what we do with everything that accumulates inside us during an ordinary day. It is not about traumas or...

#415 🔸 How you rise after you have fallen completely and why healthy pride is the first thing you need

23 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

  Living with open questions, which I wrote about last time, requires tolerating uncertainty. But there is a specific type of uncertainty that is harder than all the others: the uncertainty that follows a major failure. The moment when something impo...

#414 🔸 Why you force answers to questions that are not ready to be answered and what you lose by doing so

22 Aug 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.03

  Slowing the rhythm, which I wrote about last time, makes possible something that speed does not allow: hearing the genuine questions that dwell in you. Not the logistical ones, not those with immediate answers, but the large and uncomfortable ones,...

#413 🔸 What you find in yourself when you finally stop running and why it is worth trying

21 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.08

  Recognising the moments when you need external help, which I wrote about last time, requires a level of awareness of your own state that everyday speed makes almost impossible. And that is precisely the paradox I want to explore today: the latent r...