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How Not to Give Up on Yourself
People rarely give up on themselves in a single moment. Twelve chapters on self-worth, resilience and authenticity — with practical exercises for the moments when your own compass has slipped.
Essays
Longer pieces on questions from psychology, society, literature and the digital present: each argues a claim and backs it with sources.
18 AI Futures. You're Already Living in One.
Max Tegmark described twelve AI futures, six are missing from his map, and one of them has already begun. A psychotherapist on the future no one notices.
Why We Believe AI Answers Without Verifying Them
Nearly nine in ten AI users say checking is their job, yet most rarely do it. What research shows about blind trust in AI, and what actually helps.
Why You Don't Have to Talk Yourself Into Affirmations
Positive self-statements do not help everyone equally. What research on affirmations, hypnosis and autogenic training actually shows, and which exercises follow from it.
Projection in Relationships: When Your Partner Becomes a Screen
When the trigger is small and the reaction is huge, more is being negotiated than the topic. What Jung, couples therapy and literature know about projection, and how to notice it in yourself.
SundaMind
How structured self-observation reveals patterns a free-form journal hides.
Why Your Journal Is Lying to You: How 8 Dimensions Change Everything
Cognitive biases make a free-form journal misleading. How eight recurring dimensions make trends comparable — and what SundaMind deliberately does NOT do.
Staying True to Yourself
Why people rarely give up on themselves in a single moment — and what helps when your own compass has slipped.
How Not to Give Up on Yourself
Twelve chapters on self-worth, resilience and authenticity, with practical exercises — readable in full and free as a PDF. By Dirk Werner, psychologist and licensed psychotherapist.