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Month: February 2023

Benefits of religious practices

February 18, 2023 / Yvonne Aburrow / Leave a comment

Altruism is good for you. Caring for and about other people is good for you. Loneliness is stressful, and can give rise to those self-critical thought spirals as you lie awake at 4am. The solution? Spend more time creating connection and meaning.

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I’d rather be “left behind”

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 / Yvonne Aburrow / Leave a comment

There’s a good article in The Guardian today about the nasty psychological effects of being exposed to constant propaganda about the rapture and being “left behind”. Trigger warning if you’ve been exposed to that kind of bad theology. Thankfully I left the evangelical nonsense before the trend for making these movies happened.

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