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What you need to navigate your love life; advice about dating, healthy relationships and dealing with your overbearing mother-in-law.
How to grow with shadow work
Shadow work: what is it? It's the process of discovering your "shadow self," or inner darkness. According to psychologist Carl Jung, the shadow is a component of every individual that resides outside of consciousness. Light would not be possible without darkness. We must face our shadow self in order to grow. Although it may be tough, it is truly the only way to move forward. Face your shadow to overcome the dark and step into the light. Use what you learn to grow and make positive changes.
By Kristine Franklin4 months ago in Humans
When the Muse Becomes a Cage: How Creatives Fall Into Addiction
At first, it feels like devotion — a writer chasing midnight inspiration, a painter sipping “just one more cup” to keep the vision alive. But behind that devotion, a quieter story unfolds: addiction disguised as art.
By Leigh Cala-or4 months ago in Humans
Incentivized Abandonment
Marriage was once a covenant that joined two lives in responsibility and perseverance. It required sacrifice from both, patience from both, and accountability from both. Today, marriage has been redefined by culture and rewritten by law. The covenant has been reduced to a contract, and the contract now rewards abandonment more than endurance. People no longer ask what it takes to stay. They ask what they can gain by leaving.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
Edit Less, Stress Less: 10 Minutes to Creative Clarity
There’s something about deadlines that makes even confident writers freeze. The heartbeat quickens, the cursor blinks louder, and suddenly every word feels wrong. You tell yourself you’ll just fix “a few things,” but two hours later, you’re still stuck in the same paragraph. Sound familiar?
By Leigh Cala-or4 months ago in Humans
Turning 21 - Supposed To Be Fun?
Twenty-one! Big number, huh? Or so we tell ourselves. Somehow it’s that one birthday most of us secretly wait for — maybe it’s the sound of finally being legal, or maybe the idea of finally feeling like an adult (even though technically you’ve been one for years).
By Varsha Boddapati 4 months ago in Humans
Sharing The Spotlight. Top Story - November 2025.
Welcome to part two of my series, "Sharing the Spotlight"! If you're new here, I decided to write this series to give other writers a little bit more of a spotlight (not that mine is very big in the first place, but that doesn't matter.)
By Sara Wilson4 months ago in Humans
Ambiverts of the World, Unite!
It used to be so easy and simple: You are either an extrovert (turn toward people, love social interactions, revel in being the heart of a party, thrive in large gatherings) or an introvert (a hermit who is terrified of the social interactions and would rather spend time with a pet, book, or a good movie, turning away from others and inward the self). Extroverts are energized by other people and interactions with them, while introverts recharge on and in solitude. Well, you know the drill - this personality dimension has been carved into us since childhood.
By Lana V Lynx4 months ago in Humans
The Half-Finished Race
People often say that women mature faster than men. In one sense they do, but that advantage is temporary. If maturity were a marathon, women would sprint the first half and cross the midpoint far ahead. They would celebrate as if the race were over. Men would lag behind, slower at first, but they would keep running. They would finish the second half while many of the early sprinters stood still. That second half of the race, the one built on endurance, sacrifice, and humility, is where real adulthood begins.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
