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#ThoughtQuo: Do I Have Internalised Fatphobia? |Moving to Body Positivity|

Tired of comments about your body? This excerpt explores body positivity. The author describes how unwanted remarks triggered shame and a negative self-image. They acknowledge how societal pressure creates a disconnect from our bodies. Body positivity...

Translation missing: en.by Hello From The Thought Co. ·Nov 2, 2023 ·3 min read
A Toast To Life!
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A Toast To Life!

What is life but to live with constant growth and learning? And what is toast if not something that is constant and versatile? Wise...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Pandemic Guilt
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Pandemic Guilt

Remember the lockdown? The two week vacation which turned into a year long ordeal? What we now call our ever changing “new normal”. Well...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
Journalling
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Journalling

We’ve come a long way from the typical “daily journal” – now, there’s a journal for everything – gratitude, anger, fear, productivity, habits –...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min
The Haunting of ... the Past
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The Haunting of ... the Past

If you’ve watched the Netflix drama series The Haunting The Hill House or Bly Manor (the second series), by the end of the show,...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown
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Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown

For someone who is an extrovert and loves interacting with people, this lockdown has been hard. Even if it is something as trivial as...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
How To: Unlearn
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How To: Unlearn

Doesn’t it feel great when you’re the expert in the room? That pleasure you get from looking up something on Google mid-argument and realising...

Aug 23, 2021 ·3 min
Wandavision & Grief
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Wandavision & Grief

WandaVision and the Many Faces of Grief | The Thought Co. WandaVision and the Many Faces of Grief Heads up: This post contains spoilers...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min
How To Be (Comfortably) Single
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How To Be (Comfortably) Single

There’s a strange undecipherable sadness that people lock you with when you tell them you’re single – one they usually reserve for missing dog...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
Binge Watching?
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Binge Watching?

“It was so bad that I couldn’t stop watching it”, Anita exclaimed as we chatted over our Netflix binge, The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood...

Aug 23, 2021 ·3 min
The Complication of Grief
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The Complication of Grief

The Pandemic has left us in a situation where death was experienced as frequent and out there for a lot of us. It now...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Dreams: Unfulfilled
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Dreams: Unfulfilled

In the past 2 years of the pandemic, varying degrees of lockdown, and never ending stagnancy, we have all been angry, restless and unhappy...

Aug 23, 2021 ·7 min
The Privilege of Hustle
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The Privilege of Hustle

If you have seen motivational speakers talking about hustling and thought to yourself “Wow, their life is so great!”, you are not alone. We...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min