mental-health
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✨ Soft-Bound Saturdays — Rest as a Sacred Rhythm
Some Saturdays arrive like a quiet threshold, the kind you don’t notice until you’ve crossed it — warm mug in hand, the body exhaling a little deeper, the spirit leaning into its own edges with curiosity rather than urgency. This… Continue reading
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🌿✨Thoughtful Thursday — A Small Pause
There’s something about Thursdays that feels like the hush right before a door opens — not quite the end of the week, not quite the beginning. Just a quiet, steady inhale. Today, let’s honor that in-between space. Take a moment… Continue reading
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🌿 Wacky Wednesday: Mid-Week Joy, Seasonal Shenanigans, and the Fine Art of Not Losing Your Mind
Happy Wacky Wednesday, beloveds —that midpoint in the weekly odyssey where time gets wobbly, responsibilities blur, and reality feels like it’s been lightly carbonated. We’re at the crest of the hill —sliding toward weekend freedom —but still close enough to… Continue reading
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The Seven Tears of the Soul
Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading
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🔮 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 20
“December’s Lamp: A Year of Becoming” This final month of 2025 isn’t just the closure of a calendar year — it’s a corridor. The old self walks beside the current self.The regrets walk beside the victories.The wounds walk beside the… Continue reading
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Mystic Mondays, Vol. 13
Persephone — The Descent, The Return, and The Self That Learns to Walk Between Every soul eventually meets Persephone. Not as a mythological figure —but as an interior presence. She is that part of us that learns:🌑 how to move… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. 19
“Shadow Work, Now With Extra Sparkle and Sarcasm” Oh beloved friends, gather close:It is the Sunday after the collective chaos of food comas, family feuds, bargain-hunting, and the existential crisis of seeing yourself reflected in the Target checkout camera. Tonight’s… Continue reading
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🍂 Saturday Check-In: The Week We Survived (and Maybe Overspent)
Hello beautiful souls —How is everyone feeling after the mashed-potato madness of Thursday and the capitalism-Olympics of Friday? Some of you are: Same, truly. Today is the slow-coming-back-to-consciousness day.It’s the day we breathe again, remember what month we’re in, and… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 18
Proclus of Athens — The Soul That Remembers Its Own Light There are thinkers whose minds become ladders — not merely across ideas, but between worlds. Proclus of Athens, the 5th-century Neoplatonist, mapped a cosmology of consciousness that did not… Continue reading
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🥤 Thirsty for Truth Thursday, Vol. 7
“Gratitude vs. Performative Thankfulness — or: Stop Thanking the Sweet Potatoes for Your Trauma” Let’s talk about gratitude. Not the kind you write on a chalkboard in perfect cursive so you can post it on social media with the caption✨“So… Continue reading
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