Field Guides

Longer reads, same questions.

Longer pieces on the situations the inquiries are built around: what the research actually found, what the teachings say, and the questions we are left with.

One field guide a week, starting with 01

02
How to stop replaying a conversation in your head
Rumination and reflection are not the same thing, and one of them predicts wellbeing. About 7 minutes.
01
Cognitive distortions: a field guide to 10 patterns of thinking
From all-or-nothing thinking to catastrophizing and should statements, each with a plain example and a question to hold. Pairs with the Self-Criticism inquiry. About 6 minutes.

Being written

When you feel unheardWhat being talked over does, and why it lands harder than it looks.
Feeling behind in lifeIdeal-self regret, and the gap people carry longest.
The arrival fallacyGetting the thing, and feeling flat afterwards.
AvoidanceWhy the thing we put off grows while we wait.

Each guide is paired with the inquiry it belongs to. See the inquiries