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• [marginalium] Ethical astrology — 9 Jul 2025
• [article] Why do people kill themselves? — 16 Aug 2024
  Suicide is the interaction between personal despair and the failure of communities to provide reasons to live. We can’t answer Camus’ “one truly serious philosophical problem” for people, only they can. But we can provide an argument to live, by showing people where they fit.
• [article] Overengineering 'calm down' — 21 Mar 2024
  Pop-psych theories on stress often use complex jargon to describe fundamentally simple concepts. They act less to inform, and more to reassure us, fascinate us, and absolve us of responsibility.
• [article] The Value of Brain Waves — 19 Feb 2024
  Brain waves are subject to the same pop-psych fluff as everything else brain related. There’s no harm in it, but looking a little more carefully actually makes them a useful tool for understanding behaviour.
• [article] Active listening is misleading — 11 Jan 2024
  Active listening isn’t about ticking boxes in conversation; it’s about diving into emotions to transform surface-level chit-chat into deep, collaborative dialogue. Forget models, focus on feelings.
• [marginalium] CBT might just be the ‘gold standard’ for white people — 10 Sep 2023
• [marginalium] What’s making kids not alright — 6 Sep 2023
• [marginalium] The Myth Of Florence Nightingale — 9 Aug 2023
• [article] On managing magic mushroom experiences — 29 Jul 2023
  Mushrooms change the balance between inside-out forces (the all-consuming neural networks that support the ‘self’) and outside-in forces (the environment and world around us). This model seems most useful in explaining the mushroom experience.
• [marginalium] What ‘long covid’ means — 27 Apr 2023
• [marginalium] How to become wise — 29 Mar 2023
• [marginalium] Is ‘feeling fat’ really a manifestation of underlying sadness — 21 Mar 2023
• [marginalium] A personalised alternative to antidepressants is on the way — 15 Mar 2023
• [marginalium] On the problematic popularisation of ‘trauma’ — 25 Feb 2023
• [marginalium] On care in meditation — 15 Feb 2023