PinnedTess in the City·Oct 22, 2021Are You a Maladaptive Daydreamer? Here’s How to Quit Part III listed a number of ways to quit maladaptive daydreaming in a previous article (and video — see below). If you don’t know if you’re a…A response icon1A response icon1
Tess in the City·Jan 21Are You Living the Top Five Regrets of the Dying?Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse, worked in palliative care for several years caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She…
Tess in the City·Nov 15, 2025How to Submit to Literary Magazines in 12 StepsWhether you’re new to sharing your creative work or you are a seasoned submitter, it can be helpful to define and refine your submitting…
Tess in the City·May 29, 2024Mentally Strong People Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for ThemselvesIn her book 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin posits that people are not either mentally strong or weak. Rather, we all…
Tess in the City·Jan 28, 2024After 2.5 Years, Here’s What I’d Do Differently as a YouTuberI started the Healthy Writer mid-August of 2021. I had thought about starting a YouTube channel for over a decade before that. Why didn’t…
Tess in the City·Jan 12, 2024Don’t Skip the Small Talk: How to Small Talk and WhyShould you skip the small talk? Whether or not you dread or dig small talk, you may want to engage more in this form of conversing.
Tess in the City·Jun 3, 2023What Is the Inequality Parade? This Is What Poverty Looks Like in the United StatesI’ve been thinking about income inequality and how the rise of AI has the potential to further increase that inequality, exploit workers…
Tess in the City·May 14, 2023Seven Things I’d Tell My Younger Self for Better Wellbeing (Part III)Do Somatic Exercises I didn’t know the meaning of somatic until I was nearly thirty years old. Somatic = “relating to the body.” Somatic…
Tess in the City·May 8, 2023Yes, Your Attention Span Is Shrinking. Here’s How to Change ThatTiktoks, YouTube shorts, Instagram reels. A flash, a splash, a here look at this, look at this, look at this, check your email, here’s a…
