
.....think again, friend.You’re not alone.
.....think again, friend.You’re not alone.
In a time when loneliness has been named the new global epidemic — with an estimated half of the world’s population feeling alone — guess what? You are not alone.
This isn’t a mental health service. Its also not AI or automated messages and chat bots, not even a single automated email. It’s something different. Its real human connection in real time. It’s a space where you get to talk, be truly listened to, and genuinely heard. It’s a space for you to simply be you.
This space is just for you — if you're under 12 and life feels like a bumpy roller coaster sometimes, you're not alone. Come explore, ask big questions, and know that it's okay to feel all the things you do and to just be yourself.
You don’t need to be talked down to — you just need space. There’s no pressure to have it all figured out right now. This time in life can be really confusing, and it’s hard to know who to talk to without it turning into ‘therapy.’ You deserve somewhere you can simply breathe.
Discover the Compass Within
In a world filled with noise, it's hard to know how to navigate—what's true, who to trust, and which way to turn. Yet learning to connect with your inner being, to hear the quiet whispers of your own higher self, is essential for finding peace in your journey and clarity in your next steps.
Heart-mind coherence—where intuition and reason meet—is key to discovering alignment and harmony on your path.
The compass you're searching for isn’t out there. It's already within you.
This space is here to help you reconnect to that inner knowing—the quiet guidance that's been there all along.
Soothe Yourself into a Better-Feeling Place
Our perspective shapes how we feel about life—and how we feel shapes our perspective. It’s a loop we often forget we have some power within. Before trying to change our outer circumstances, we might gently shift how we feel on the inside.
Soothing ourselves into a better-feeling place can open the door to new ideas, fresh perspectives, and possibilities we hadn’t considered. What once felt like a rock and a hard place may begin to soften. We start to see openings where there once seemed to be walls.
Many of us were never taught that our inner state can shape our outer reality. But try it. When we choose to feel better first, we often find that life begins to meet us there. New doors open. Things begin to align.
Even if nothing changes outside of us right away, meeting life’s challenges from a steadier, more centered place makes the process more bearable—and sometimes, even beautiful.
Tricks and Tools to Spice Up Your Daily Life
You know that feeling when you slide a key into a lock—and it turns? That click of alignment? These are the little tools that can do just that for your day.
Each one has been tried, tested, and lived by me personally. I’ve experimented with them in real life, and found that even the smallest shift can make a surprising difference to how I feel and move through the day.
There’s no particular order here—just a collection of fun, simple tools for you to explore.
Pick one. Try it. See if something shifts in your perspective or your mood.
These aren’t fixes, they’re invitations—keys you can turn and feel what clicks.
I challenge you to play with them. One tool at a time.
Finding Meaning Within Your Experience
Since the beginning of time, we've sought to make sense of reality through story. Around campfires, in ancient myths, through novels and films—we've shaped meaning from the chaos of life by telling stories.
But often, our own lives can feel like they lack any shape at all. Instead of a clear path or plotline, we see only loss, confusion, and a fragmented journey that feels unfair or meaningless. It can seem like everyone else has direction, while ours is filled with wrong turns, curveballs, and what feels like punishment. As if we've somehow gone off course, as if our life doesn't matter.
But what if the meaning isn’t missing—just hidden?
What if there’s truth buried inside the pain, a path through the obstacle, and a deeper purpose within the mess of your journey?
What if what feels like being lost... is actually how we begin to find what’s most real?
This is a space where you’re invited to explore your story, rediscover meaning in your experiences, and uncover the values that live at the core of your being.
What if YOU are normal, but the society you live within is Dysfunctional?
Explore articles that speak directly to the struggles you're facing—offering insight into why you're not broken, but human, simply trying to survive in a deeply dysfunctional society.
Many of the thoughts and feelings you carry are not personal flaws, but natural responses to an unhealthy culture. We’re often led to believe that we are the problem, when in truth, the world around us is out of alignment. These reflections may help you feel less alone—and perhaps even spark a moment of “aha.”
The systems we’re taught to believe in, the cultural programs that shape the Western world, have created a landscape of disconnection, dissatisfaction, and quiet suffering. And when we finally reach out, we’re often handed a diagnosis, when what we truly crave is honest connection, community, and friendship.
Pull up a chair, sit by the fire, here you discover you are in the majority not the minority.
This space is about helping you map out your place in the world. Whether you're grappling with loneliness, struggling to find purpose, or navigating questions of self-worth and identity, you're amongst friends. Here, we explore the deeper threads of what it means to be human—everything from confidence and self-esteem, to relationship patterns, childhood traumas, and the sense of feeling lost in a world that doesn’t seem to reflect who you are.
We’ll look at why we repeat the same relationship patterns, how our early life shaped our social identity, and how we begin to find our own direction in a confusing and noisy world.
Topics in this section include:
When it all comes crashing down.
A safe and gentle space for the moments that feel unbearable.
Life isn’t a straight line. Crises — those moments when it feels like everything is crumbling down on top of you — are not signs of failure. They are turning points. They often happen when your soul can no longer survive in the same pattern. You are not falling apart; you are breaking free.
Topics in this section include:
Living With What Life Has Handed You.
Honoring the reality of ongoing battles without shame.
Some struggles don’t fade with time. Ongoing challenges with grief, loneliness, addiction, fear, or health aren’t signs that you failed — they’re part of our coping mechanism or our bodies reactions to the stress handed to us. The fact that you’re still here, still breathing, still trying, is powerful. You are not broken — you are incredibly strong.
Topics in this section include:
A Place where it's Safe to Ask the Big Questions
The Dark Night of the Soul is not just a single night. It’s a time when the very foundations we’ve built our lives upon begin to shake. We start to question the larger picture — the nature of reality, truth, and our place within it all.
These questions may arise from deep exhaustion, a sense of pointlessness, or a major life crisis that leaves everything we once knew either shattered or stripped away.
To be in this space is not as lost as it feels. In fact, you may be closer to truth than ever before.
So give yourself permission to ask the big questions.
Here, you are safe.
Here, you are among fellow souls.
Christian D. Larson
There’s a whole space of human experience that doesn’t fall under “mental illness.”
It’s just life.
Messy. Confusing. Beautiful. Exhausting.
And yes—sometimes lonely.
But that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.
It means you’re human, living in a world that isn’t always built for humans to thrive.
When we feel overwhelmed or isolated, we’re often told to go see a professional—as if needing someone to talk to is a medical issue. But what most of us actually need is a space to be heard, supported, and understood without being labeled.
The truth is:
It’s society that’s dysfunctional—not you.
You are responding exactly as a human should in an unwell culture that has forgotten how to connect. Not only that, societies solution to the loneliness worldwide epidemic is to come up with more AI, more chat bots, more automated messages to replace human connection......how insane is that.
What we are missing is CONNECTION. Real Connection, to Real People about Real Life, not AI chat bots, not automated emails and chat replies, not 'mental health' spaces with appointments, insurance bureaucracy and textbook diagnosis with 4 point systems to 'fix' us.
You Don't NEED FIXED!!!
We all need community.
We all need someone to talk to when life is too much.
Not necessarily therapy. Not a clinical diagnosis and textbook theory.
Just a real conversation with someone who’s listening.
Sometimes all it takes is talking things out over a cup of coffee (or a screen).
When we’re truly heard, something inside shifts.
We don’t always need perfect answers—just the weight lifted.
Of course, if you’re dealing with an ongoing chemical imbalance—such as depression, thyroid issues, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other health conditions that affect your inner balance—there is absolutely a place for mental health care. Please don’t think for a moment that I’m trying to replace that. These conditions can be incredibly stressful to manage on top of everything else life throws at us, and there’s a space on this site that speaks directly to living with these challenges and how to seek the right kind of help.
What I’m talking about here are the everyday struggles that come with simply being human. The emotional storms, the existential questions, the need to be seen, supported, and surrounded by community—something we were wired for. For tens of thousands of years, we lived in tribes and villages, where we were held by others through life’s highs and lows. It’s only in the last few hundred years that this support system has been dismantled—starting with the industrial revolution and continuing with the rise of capitalistic bureaucracy.
Yes, there are amazing tools, books, therapists, podcasts. But in that moment of panic, spiraling thoughts, or heartache—you’re not looking for a “program.” You just want someone safe to talk to now, not three weeks from now with insurance forms in hand and a bill for $300.
That’s what this space is for.
I created this because I’ve been there too.
And I wanted to offer something simpler:
A place to talk
Some tools if they help
And a reminder that you are not alone.
You know yourself better than anyone.
What you need is already inside you.
I’m just here to help you hear it again—and to remind you that you are capable of designing your own way forward.
I'm not a therapist. I’m not offering clinical advice. Everything on this site comes from my own experience, real life that was painful messy and had to be navigated alone.
I’m a person you can talk to when you need someone. No pressure. No judgment.
Just someone in your corner.
You don’t need to be “fixed.”
You just need to be seen and understood.
-Katie Pickard
One in a Million
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