A. Tayebnama

Why you stay stuck. How you get free. Depth psychology learned from 80+ cultures. Building mental fitness. Writings @

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Why do smart, self-aware people keep choosing partners who feel electric but end up emotionally unavailable? The pattern is predictable. And it's breakable.

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شاهزاده رضا پهلوی: «تیم من به من وفادار است و من هم متقابلا به آنها وفادارم.»

بخشی از نشست آنلاین با شماری از فعالان و چهره‌های رسانه‌ای و هنری، ۱ خرداد ۲۵۸۵/۱۴۰۵

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Most closed doors aren't locked. They're just closed. Wrote about what changes when you actually knock.

https://t.co/fCJ7byJFgB

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@derspiegel @SPIEGEL_English just made the Nazi party archives searchable to everyone. After 80 years, Germans can look up their own families in seconds. The demand has been so enormous the link hasn't left the top of their homepage. But nobody is asking the harder question: what catches people when they find what they're looking for?

https://t.co/F0nyae2Jaq

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The digital nomad lifestyle was built on a gap between what you earn and what you spend. AI is closing it from one side. Rising costs are closing it from the other. Bali is one of the places where it's harder to look away

https://t.co/0Rqe6AUrB7

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@GoodMenProject

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Strong attraction isn't a green light. It's information.

Read more:
https://t.co/NGF2pAA7Uj

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@simpleorganix That's the part most people miss. The intensity isn't random. It's a signal. And once you learn to read it, everything changes.

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Just because you’re “smart & self aware” doesn’t mean your hormones & emotions are optimized.

I know a lot of smart, sick people.
I know a lot of self aware that lack external awareness.

Hormone crosstalk is chemical…

And even if chemistry is compatible, doesn’t mean the reactions can’t be toxic.

Both Chlorine & Ammonia are cleansers, mixing them though might finish you while you clean your counter. Lol

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Ever been with someone who did everything right, and still felt off? We call it no chemistry and move on. Five converging fields of science now suggest it might be something older. Something we inherited. New piece on why the chemistry you feel might not be yours.

https://t.co/sk2yrbtGul

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Jung built the most sophisticated tools ever created for descending into the psyche.

What he never solved was how to come back.

Turns out, an ancient Hebrew concept already had the roadmap. Teshuvah. It literally means "return."

The gap in Jungian psychology might have been filled centuries ago.

https://t.co/IUi7ThdOpw

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Many people think AI threatens their job. The deeper threat? It's coming for the identity built on top of it. The degree, the title, the expertise. They weren't just achievements. They were also hiding places. What happens when the hiding place thins?

https://t.co/yHj0vXyjod

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"Become your best self." For what? For whom? The inner work was never about you. It was about everyone you're going to be different for because you did it. Final part of four.

https://t.co/WKefbVsOR4

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Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, Taoism, indigenous traditions. They all saw the same gap Jung left open. What's surprising is how differently each one tried to fill it. Part three of four.

https://t.co/K2l8TC2NnQ

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Carl Jung mapped the journey inward with extraordinary precision. But he never told you how to come back. Turns out a 3,000 year old tradition did. Part two of four.

https://t.co/rTGOENnWxl

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Jung mapped the journey inward better than anyone. But he never answered the most important question: what do you do after you've done the inner work? Part one of a four-part series.

https://t.co/EYokWc87Cd

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"56% of adults are securely attached."

That number is in every therapy article on the internet. It's also based on decades old self-report data where avoidant people literally don't know they're avoidant.

The real number? Probably closer to 35%.

I dug into why, and what's coming next.

https://t.co/BzibCYIAxx

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We built mental health care for crisis. But most suffering happens somewhere quieter. In the over-functioning, the polite burnout, the "I'm fine" that no one questions.

New article: https://t.co/LmD3nPD64m

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The most accomplished person you know might also be the hardest to get close to. There's a reason for that. And it has nothing to do with arrogance.

Read “Why the Most Accomplished People Are Often the Hardest to Love“ on Medium: https://t.co/yQO2byNfKm

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What if the reason you keep dismissing good people is because dating apps literally rewired how you evaluate them?

It's not about willpower. It's neuroscience.

I wrote about the paradox of choice, the chemistry trap, and how to use apps to actually find real love. 6 minute read.

Free read:
https://t.co/wTPApik3Ex