Sukoon by Mohsina Azhar

07/05/2026

30/03/2026

Life doesn’t happen in the head.
It doesn’t happen in analysis, in dissecting emotions, in endless questioning: where did this come from? why? when?

The mind can create infinite stories.
The past has thousands of drawers. You can sit in them for years.

But life is not in a drawer.

Life is in the breath you are taking right now.
In your feet resting on the ground.
In the sound reaching your ears.
In the body that is feeling, now.

An emotion doesn’t need an investigation.
It needs presence.

When you say to it:
“I see you.”
You don’t enter the story.
You don’t go back to yesterday.
You don’t build theories about childhood.

You return.
From the head to the body.
From the past to the moment.
From analysis to experience.

Presence is not about understanding everything.
It is about being.
Here.
Now.
And life only ever happens here.

~ Nina Sano



Art | by Shintaro Kago

26/03/2026

"Sometimes we pursue emotionally unavailable people because we are avoiding the most important relationship of all: the one with ourselves.

It is so much easier to outsource the job of loving yourself. To find someone else to do it for you. To make another person responsible for your sense of worth, your sense of belonging, your sense of being enough. To turn them into the solution to a problem that was never actually theirs to solve.

But happiness and fulfillment have always been an inside job. This is not a motivational quote but as a structural reality. Until you begin that work — until you take responsibility for your own aliveness, your own worth, your own capacity to receive love & joy — you will keep finding creative ways to avoid it.

And pursuing someone who cannot give you what you need is one of the most creative avoidances available.

The same way alcohol numbs what it cannot heal, an impossible love story keeps you busy enough that you don’t have to sit with the silence and ask the real question:

What would I have to feel if I finally stopped waiting for that person to be ready?"

—Jovanny Varela, excerpt from Gentle Reminder No 131, "Looking for affection from unavailable people is an act of self-harm: how to clear painful love templates from the bloodline"

Read the full piece: https://bit.ly/looking-for-affection-in-unavailable-people

Artwork by Anastasia Druzhininskay

23/03/2026

Have you ever listened to someone speak and realized… you weren’t actually hearing them — you were hearing your own pain talking back to you?

Someone gives you a compliment and you dismiss it. Not because they’re lying — but because your wounds convinced you they must be. Someone sets a boundary and you take it personally. Not because it was about you — but because rejection has lived in your body so long, it answers the door before you even get there.

Healing isn’t soft. It’s not candles and affirmations. It’s sitting with the uncomfortable truth that some of your deepest reactions don’t belong to the present moment — they belong to something that hurt you a long time ago and never got resolved.

So I’m doing the work. Messily. Slowly. Some days better than others.

Because I want to finally hear people clearly. See situations for what they actually are. And meet myself — the real one — without all the noise.

The wound doesn’t get to narrate life forever.

— Still healing, but wide awake 🥰🌬️✨

27/01/2026

"If you realize
The Emptiness of All Things
Compassion will arise within your Heart"

~ Jetsun Milarepa

05/12/2025

Staying open-hearted isn’t automatic. It takes intention. And most days, that intention matters more than we realize.

Showing up with honesty and care is never wasted. It shapes how we move through the world and how we stay connected to who we really are.

Nurture your tenderness. It’s doing more good than you think.