The Synergy Project

You might be thinking power in stillness? What has stillness got to do with me feeling better or solving my issues? I get this a lot and most people resist the notion. Most people think they have to do something about their discomfort. This is what makes stillness so powerful. I get it, the idea is paradoxical. You mean that if I sit still, I can heal? I am not saying that action is futile, it is important, it is only futile when the action comes from reaction. This is where stillness comes...

Most people go about their life not ever looking underneath the veil of “normal” because it kind of works for them. They are getting by. Most people are fish in water and don’t recognise what they are swimming in. People that experience mental health concerns understand that there is something not right but they direct it to, “something is not right with me”, instead of looking at there is something not right with normal. Even if you know there is nothing wrong with you, you have to play the...

Understanding Our Wounds We are not broken; we are wounded. Wounds can heal, but only when we are allowed to see and feel what caused them. The mental health care system has become adept at bandaging symptoms while ignoring the root causes. It diagnoses, medicates, and silences the pain. We keep turning up to jobs that crush us, rents that bleed us, and a society that labels our despair as a personal defect. Why is it considered normal to feel anxious all the time? To feel like something is...