Rachel Bonifacio

Since it's El Niño season, let's take a few seconds to visualize an ocean wave swelling, getting bigger and bigger, and then eventually returning back to the rest of the water... Just like a wave in the vast waters, sometimes there are moments when an urge feels almost bigger than us. This includes simple everyday things, like the need to check your phone, to dissociate while socializing, to numb out big emotions by eating, doom scrolling, online shopping, overworking, or escaping. Sometimes...

As the year begins to soften at the edges, take a moment to honor everything you lived through—what changed you, challenged you, strengthened you. Here's where you can start.

Life throws things at us we never asked for, and many hardships are genuinely unfair. But here’s a possibility for people who are curious: sometimes, without even knowing it, we participate in keeping ourselves stuck.