HeyJaredActual Honesty
For dreamers and realists interested in living honestly. Like, actually.
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Perfectionism And Its Function (opens the original)
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Perfectionism has dutifully trailed after me for as long as I can remember. It is excellent fodder for eating disorders, anxiety, people-pleasing, and the “wellness” industry—all of which I have done my fair share with. With time, I have learned to accept its presence without demonizing nor pedestalizing it. In the past, I have attributed much of my academic and work-related success to perfectionism; alternatively, I have considered my perfectionist tendencies as the source of all of my angst an
The Stuff In Your Mind is Not You…It’s Just What You’re Thinking (opens the original)
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During the inner critic meditation retreat I went on (and wrote about) a few weeks ago, two strategies were raised for dealing with the inner critic. The first is to fight against the inner critic and try to eliminate it. Not generally accepted as effective, by most spiritual and therapeutic perspectives. The second strategy, which we spent time working with, centers around acceptance: Accept that the inner critic is there and learn to put more space in between you and what the voice says about
Action Precedes Motivation (opens the original)
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Much of the work I’m doing with people in counseling right now can be called behavioral activation therapy.Behavioral activation therapy rests on the essential idea that changing your behaviors generates changes in your mood, feelings, and thoughts more effectively than trying to change your feelings and thoughts first. In a nutshell: Taking a walk is more likely to shift a bad mood than thinking about being grateful and positive. The former focuses on what you can actually do; the latter focuse
An ‘I Quit Social Media’ Update (opens the original)
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I spent the better part of 2024 trying to quit using social media by bemoaning all the reasons I hated it so much. I wrote about how we’ve “given up our agency” to our phones; how social media makes us worse people and decreases our self-efficacy. In April of 2025, I finally quit. In th
The “…But I Love You” Practice (opens the original)
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I went with my dad to a meditation retreat this past weekend; a daylong seminar and practice on how to work with the inner critic. You all know the inner critic—the voice that sounds remarkably like your own which pipes up of its own accord. It’s your very own personalized inner narrator that comments on everything you’re doing wrong and could be doing better, and seems to know exactly what to say to make you feel like a total asshole, a ridiculous mess, an unworthy and unlovable loser who can’t
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