How Collective Societal Fear creates Toxic Social Norms
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Role models are people you look up to, and whose example you might use as a guide for how you want to live, behave, or grow.
Grounding is about bringing your attention back to the here‑and‑now, especially when overwhelmed, anxious, or pulled into bad memories.
A growth-mindset treats relationship conflict as something to “learn from” and “work on together”. This tends to keep things “real”.
Relationship conflict is when two or more people’s needs, views, or feelings clash and they struggle to find a fair way forward.
True parental supervision is warm, informed, and steady. It keeps children safe not just by watching them, but by building a relationship where the child wants to share, listen, and cooperate
Ideal relationships are not flawless or conflict‑free. They are relationships where truth and care can coexist. Where you can be real, including imperfect, and still feel fundamentally respected, valued, and free to be yourself.
Trauma is what happens when an experience is so overwhelming that your usual ways of coping can’t keep up.
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between