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Old wisdom, made practical.
Articles drawing on two thousand years of wisdom tradition and on what modern science has established about the brain and the nervous system. No hacks, no promises — just what was already there, made usable for today.
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Shadow & shame
Ten minutes of morning light: the smallest change with the widest reach
It sounds too simple to be true: stepping outside within the first hour after waking. And yet there is little that costs so little and does so much — for your sleep that night, your energy during the day, and your mood in between.
Historical voices
Where is your well? The question Epictetus was already asking two thousand years ago
Some people seem to stay upright through anything, and others waver at one cool glance. The difference is rarely strength. It lies in the place where someone has put their happiness.
Shadow & shame
Gabor Maté and what happens when your body has been saying 'no' for years
There is one book every woman who has swallowed her sexual and personal 'no' should read. Gabor Maté's 'When the Body Says No' (2003) shows how suppressed emotions express themselves in chronic illness — from autoimmune to cancer to fibromyalgia. This is not just a medical story. This is the diagnosis of what happens to women when they trade authenticity for adaptation.
Historical voices
Sappho, Teresa, and Rabia — three women who reinvented love
Thirteen centuries and three continents separate them. But when you place their words side by side, they speak of the same undercurrent — love that is not about an object, but about a way of being present.
Historical voices
Julian of Norwich — the English anchorite who called God 'mother'
In 1373, an English woman in her thirties received a series of mystical visions. Thirty years later she had reflected on them enough to write them down. What she saw about God as mother is still radical.
What moves here
These articles are tastes. The path itself is the course.
What stands here in separate pieces stands in The Frequency of Happiness as one path — with exercises, worksheets and a guide that remembers where you are. Or taste seven days first, free.