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Brittle . Runner-Up in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge.
I think I was 12 when I first began dissecting myself into the sections of the trifold mirror. When I was younger, I would take the same mirror and bend it just so - just so I could see myself moving forever into the background - forever and ever - just more me’s cacading into eternity.
By Emily McGuff10 months ago in Psyche
Chapter III: The Painter’s Paradox — Creation as Annihilation
There is a man whose artwork is not composed with a brush dipped in paint, but rather dipped in existence itself. The bristles of his paint brush, dipped in a white so bright it worships the very idea of painting, are believed to be the extract of the very marrow of the soul itself. Each stroke is not just light on canvas, but light imagined; he contains the power to release light into the fathomless void lurking around the periphery of life. He is a painter of the endless dark, a witness to a subjectless mute whose silence speaks louder than any tangible utterance. Language fails here; any word on the edge of the subject's tongue is siphoned away, absorbed, dissolved, and regurgitated onto the dried slick of basanit slate as pigment. What else could it be called but a sacrament? His brush as chalice; his white, the dictated libation of a soul grasping at meaning in its own frailty.But as the light escapes his brush, the shadow is also introduced.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH11 months ago in Psyche
One-Eighty. Content Warning.
Bodily insecurity isn't a new struggle. I am not the first to experience it. I will not be the last. I wish I could be. Becoming a preteen in the early 2000's didn't help. The era of low-rise skinny jeans, Megan Fox in Transformers being the beauty standard for teenagers, and fat-shaming Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada did everything to fuck over young women and girls' mindsets with respect to being comfortable in our own skin.
By Noelle Spaulding 11 months ago in Psyche
Exploring the Gut-Brain Connection: How Digestive Health Impacts Mental Well-being
The gut-brain connection has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly evolving areas of health research. While it might seem like our brain and gut operate independently, science now confirms that the two are intricately connected through a complex network of nerves, chemicals, and microbial messengers.
By Richard Bailey11 months ago in Psyche
Change is a Part of Life
In the Sonapur village, the old mango tree was casting a shadow as the sun set. The slender dirt road where Rohan used to play was bathed in golden light. Now, years later, he was returning after a long time, a stranger to the place he once called home.
By Niranjon Chandra Roy11 months ago in Psyche
Was It A Breakdown Or A Breakthrough?. Honorable Mention in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge.
One year after my divorce, I went back with my husband, the father of my two children. He was sober and I always thought we would be happy together if he could quit drinking and using drugs.
By Denise E Lindquist11 months ago in Psyche
