Maya Rasic

This year I started using four apps and would love to recommend them to you. So let's jump right in! MENTAL HEALTH / WELLNESS Unstuck App The love here is real. CBT based therapy journaling got me seriously, like the name suggests, unstuck. Powered by amazing technique, intuitive UI, and a pretty clever AI assistant, this app promises and overdelivers. It works on a pretty easy principle: Check in daily or choose one of the presets. My most used is Thought Journal where you can start off by...

The poem has silenced Crumbled in the hands of "I am fine" I am un-pathetically "OK" So what is the point Of bleeding letters On this empty paper If the sorrow disappears The verse also leaves Empty are the hands Of a happy artist.

Lately, after the ending of my relationship, I've been feeling the intense need for a hug. Excuse the transparency (it's what I'm all about - and the title of this blog). Paired with an intense pain in my leg, exiting a year of tremendous stress & turmoil, I just gave myself a hug. It felt nice. It felt like a soft touch to every nerve ending I have in my body. It felt like what I needed. Often enough we crave outside tenderness, without realising we are our biggest source of it. The last few...