Inside Out (2015) and Inside Out 2 (2024) Review
The film is basically a story about the psychological. Pete Docter built the premise from his own experience watching his daughter Elie change as she entered adolescence.
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2020sThunderbolts (2025) Review
Florence Pugh's Yelena carries another film that fails. Mental health as decorative content.
Imposter SyndromeImposter Syndrome and Writers: The Voice That Says You’re a Fraud
A writing professor once told me, to my face, that I would never be any good. I believed him for decades, and it kept me from writing far longer than I want to admit. The voice never fully shuts up,…
Character DevelopmentHow to Write Mental Illness in Fiction: 6 Guidelines
Clinical writing lists symptoms; memoir gives one person's account; fiction does something neither can, putting you inside a mind so you feel what depression or dissociation actually does to someone's world. That is why these novels build empathy, not just…
ADHDThe ADHD Christian: Faith With a Brain That Will Not Sit Still
Written by someone who left church at 14 due to ADHD struggles. A theological and practical guide for Christians whose brains don't fit conventional spiritual
Mental HealthThe Relationship BULLSHIT Men Fall For: What Thirty Years Taught Me
26 predictable relationship patterns, why red pill and feminist advice both fail, and how to recognize gaslighting, narcissism, and toxic dynamics, from someo
ADHDMy Life in Crazytown: What They Called Wrong With Me
A memoir about how dysfunctional childhood survival skills became professional superpowers. Late-diagnosed ADHD, autism, and accidentally building a career fr
ManagementMy Boss is Insane: And Other Workplace Nightmares
Practical survival guide for toxic workplaces. Documentation, escape funds, boss-proof skills, mental health, when to walk away. From someone who lived it for
Authority Through AuthorshipLucas Bonder: The One-Body Idea, Ego Death, and Facing Your Shadow
Lucas Bonder joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explore the idea that there is only one body, why separation causes suffering, what ego death involves, and the spiritual work of facing your shadow, drawing on his books…
GriefCatherine Napoli Bruce: Writing Through Grief and Trusting the Signs You Notice
Catherine Napoli Bruce joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to talk about five years writing a book after losing her husband to glioblastoma, trusting the signs grief brings, and giving yourself permission to feel, with one message: your…
Author TalksKim Groshek: The Pause Power Movement and Taking 15 Minutes a Day to Unplug
Kim Groshek joins Author Talks to discuss the Pause Power Movement, a year off her phone, and her framework of pausing, time-boxing, and agreement.
ChildhoodThe Legacy of Attempted Suicide
A few words spoken in the heat of a moment in childhood changed the course of a life: the butterfly effect of what we say to children.