Mentally Well

06/08/2026

06/06/2026

I like this advice. How about you?

06/06/2026

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06/04/2026

When someone has already decided on a narrative about you, no amount of explaining changes it. Here's why: 👇

Your words get filtered through the story they've already built. That story is years deep. It predates you. The most exhausting thing you can do is keep trying to correct a version of yourself that only exists in someone else's mind. And, once someone's mind has anchored a story about you, it defends that story. Every interaction gets sorted to fit. Every silence becomes evidence. Every explanation becomes further proof.

Your own mind knows when it's in a losing loop. That low, heavy feeling after certain conversations? That's your mind registering what your logic is still trying to argue against.

Some people need you to be the problem. You don't have to stay available for that.

Send this to someone going through this right now. 🫂 (written by Dr. Carolyn Leaf)

06/03/2026