If you’re the type of person who feels a sense of bad nostalgia, this one is for you. I re-watched Spaced, a tv show that used to be pure comfort to me in my early 20s.

"This time, it didn’t bring back the good nostalgia. It brought back a feeling that tightened my chest. I even felt sad."

Why You Should Love The People You Hate After years of trying to be a “good person” , I realized something embarrassing: my kindness was actually just a fear of taking up space.

We think that to be good people, we have to kill the parts of us that are “selfish” or “aggressive”. But when you do that, you don’t become a saint. You become a ghost.
#introspection #mentalhealth #personalgrowth #psychology

Why we give our best speeches in our own heads or "The Midnight Orator"

I am shy in person but I talk perfectly inside my head when I'm alone. I wrote this post to figure out why my inner voice is so much stronger than my real one.
#introversion #innervoice #personalgrowth

Losing an old self and not yet knowing the new one. What a year 2025 has been.

I discovered something unsettling during burnout. Something I had avoided for years. It changed everything.

Those who most deserve recognition are the ones who never learned how to receive it. #QuietStrenght #Emotions #EmotionalJourney

Music For Memories That Never Happened how one track made me nostalgic for a summer night I have never lived

How one track made me nostalgic for a summer night I have never lived.
#latinhouse #reflectinglistening #curation
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Why This Goa Track Stood Out from 30 Others A breakdown of Divine Force by Introspective and the 20 seconds that made it unforgettable.

Listened to 30-ish Psytrance/Goa tracks recently.
Only one stopped me and I wrote about the 20 seconds that did it.
#musicwriting #musiccuration #substack

1/987 on Substack This Week’s Music Discovery: Chantay Savage - Still (Masaki Morii Remix) Once again there is that one song or track that just gets stuck with you, Right? And you play it on repeat. So there is mine...

This Week's Music Discovery.