The Forbidden Pages
Every post contains something our publishers made us cut, our lawyers begged us to bury, or our beta readers said went too far.
- by Stan Taylor
Why you keep consuming the people in front of you to fill a hole dug in childhood.
- by Stan Taylor
A Lesson in Power Dynamics at Work
See how getting good at your job switches off the brain circuit that reads power.
- by Stan Taylor
An Education in Disappearing for Others
Why does being useful feels like the surest way to be loved?
- by Stan Taylor
Why does the 'smartest' person in the room tend to build nothing?
- by Stan Taylor
When Therapy Needs You to Stay Broken
In reading this, you will meet the one product the industry cannot afford to cure: the perpetual patient.
- by Stan Taylor
Close the wound or bleed to death believing your emotional hemorrhaging is holy.
- by Stan Taylor
How To Manipulate a Narcissist
Why does this person make me feel like I'm losing my mind?
- by Stan Taylor
A Final Warning for People Pleasers
Is this really who you are, or just who you learned to be to survive?
- by Stan Taylor
"Be Yourself" Is Terrible Advice
What if the one piece of advice everyone agrees on is actually destroying your life?
- by Stan Taylor
The four-word phrase that has likely held your body hostage before.
- by Stan Taylor
Why You Prefer Guaranteed Misery Over Potential Joy
Why do we manage uncertainty by creating even more of it?
- by Stan Taylor
People-Pleasing is a Survival Program
Why does their slight frown feel like a knife to your chest?
- by Stan Taylor
Why You're Addicted to Mediocre Partners
Why does this relationship feel like wearing a coat two sizes too small?
- by Stan Taylor
Why does your empathy switch off when the homeless person asks for change but surge when your friend texts about their breakup?
- by Stan Taylor
Why does breakfast feel like the most important meal of the day when your grandparents barely ate it?