Sound Soul Counseling

04/03/2026

The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude

03/18/2026

The loneliness of outgrowing your origins shows up in your body long before your mind catches up. Here's how to stop abandoning yourself to maintain connection.

03/18/2026

That was my impressiin too in different parts of Africa - especially in Kenya. (Swuahili Culture?)
Any way: Money can't buy happiness.

A new Sapien Labs study found that young people in Ghana and Nigeria are much more able to function than those in the U.S.

03/11/2026

Oh, i like it so much!
(Insecurity is loud, confidence is quiet.)

After decades of watching people fight for recognition and validation, I've discovered that the most powerful individuals are those who can be completely ignored, interrupted, or overlooked without feeling diminished—because they've learned that true strength comes from no longer needing the world...

02/22/2026

02/22/2026

Noticing reciprocity.

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that doesn’t come from an empty room. It comes from a full phone — full of contacts, old group chats, and names you once considered close — where the silence only becomes deafening once you stop being the one to break it. Most people assume the hardest p...

02/19/2026

Wow! I would not have tbought about the difference this way.

While formal education creates "routine experts" who excel within defined parameters, those who learned through struggle and curiosity develop a fundamentally different neural architecture that thrives in uncertainty—and psychology is finally revealing why autodidacts solve problems in ways tradit...

02/03/2026

Great insight.

There are lots of guidebooks for parents of young children – but what happens when your offspring hit adulthood? A psychotherapist shares her guiding principles for raising grownups

02/01/2026

Surprise, surprise.

A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.

01/30/2026

Carl Gustav Jung, a pioneering Swiss psychiatrist, introduced groundbreaking concepts like archetypes and the collective unconscious. His work profoundly influenced psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. Jung believed genuine clarity arises from introspection, not external pursuits. He began his....

01/16/2026

My heart is going for gen Z - and others - who are in these shoes.

When work is the most important way of proving your worth in America, being unemployed can make it difficult to date, say experts.

01/15/2026

Sounds like a good, folliwable plan.

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