solo dating: how to have fun alone & love your own company

confidence & self-love tips that have ACTUALLY helped me

a little bonus episode! today i'm sharing the list of confidence tips that have actually helped me, that i mentioned in episode 2 about confidence culture!

solo dating: how to have fun alone & love your own company

today my friend nina and i, two seasoned solo daters, answer your questions about going out on fun outings by yourself! how to conquer the awkwardness, the potential judgement and the boredom? we share it all in today's episode! nina's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NinaCatharina_

i can't stop doomscrolling through anti-doomscroll videos

help! i keep using technology to escape technology! articles mentioned: https://open.substack.com/pub/theunmoored/p/theyre-on-my-phone-telling-me-i-really?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://www.cosmo.ph/lifestyle/watching-decluttering-organizing-videos-explanation-a4462-20201113 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10516449/

imagination is the antidote to your nihilism and nostalgia-bait

it seems like the solution to our discontentment with the present is looking back to the past, nostalgia-bait and general nihilism. but who are we leaving behind when we escape into memories? how can we rekindle our imagination, to look forward again? sources: the ultimate hidden truth of the world - david graeber, prefaced by rebecca solnit the new age of sexism - laura bates empire of AI - karen hao Science fiction blockbuster movies – A problem or a path to urban greenery? a solarpunk manifesto https://missolivialouise.tumblr.com/post/94374063675/heres-a-thing-ive-had-around-in-my-head-for-a dead zones of the imagination - david graeber

i will remain joyful out of spite !!!

today we discuss a topic i've been pondering a lot the past year; joy as a means instead of an end! books and articles mentioned:ursula leguin - the ones who walk away from omelasemily henry - beach readhttps://www.filosofie.nl/filosoof-peter-venmans-de-zin-van-het-leven-is-zin-hebben-in-het-leven-frivoliteit/wendy cope - the orangebeautiful world where are you - sally rooneyfjodr dostojevski - crime and punishmentalduous huxley - brave new worldflorence given - women living deliciouslyaudre lorde - uses of the erotichttps://brightblackhoney.substack.com/p/joy-is-a-strategy-why-white-leftistsalbert camus - the myth of sisyphus