Brianna Wiest
Brianna is the author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, Ceremony, and When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal.
14 Signs You’re In A Spiritual Relationship With Your Partner
You aren’t desperate for proof that they love you, you aren’t threatened by them so much as speaking to another attractive human being, you don’t necessarily need them to promise you forever and ever. You know you’re in it together right now.
The Psychology Of Daily Routine
Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.
16 Difficult Things About Growing Up As An Old Soul
Not dating much because you don’t “like anyone your age.”
Attractive People Are Not Necessarily The Luckiest In Love, But Here Are 9 Traits Of People Who Are
But have you ever mentally surveyed all the people you know who are coupled vs. the people who aren’t? All the people who are in long-term relationships vs. the people who aren’t? Hell, all the people who genuinely feel and exchange love and care, and don’t?
15 Difficult Things About Being A Very Intuitive Person
It’s hard to play dumb when you know people are being dishonest or disingenuous with you.
8 Struggles Of Being The Girl With Perpetually High Expectations
Your brain works in such a way that “perfect” is “complete,” and “good enough” is synonymous with “not the best.”
7 Things You Should Know Before You Date Someone Who Is Low Maintenance But Has High Standards
If you want to do something for us, it doesn’t need to be extravagant, but it does need to be thoughtful.
7 Things You Only Think About When You’re Not Really In Love With Someone
If it doesn’t feel as good as you imagined, it’s not right.
8 Reasons Why Mentally Attractive People Will Always Be Hotter Than Physically Attractive Ones
It’s not beautiful people who have love (or sex) – it’s people who know who they are.
16 Ways To Stop Worrying About How Your Life Looks And Start Focusing On How It Feels
Ask yourself: “If I knew nobody would judge me, what would I stand for?”
10 Signs You Have A Soul Connection To Your Partner
You have not, and in the foreseeable future will not, have the existential crisis of whether or not you’re “meant to be.”
9 Reasons Why Happy People Don’t Seek Comfort
Your brain can’t differentiate “good” from “bad,” it only knows “comfortable” and “uncomfortable.”
10 Reasons Why People Who Take A Long Time To Get Over Relationships Are The Only Kind Of People To Date
They’re willing to try, even if that means making themselves vulnerable.
Your Subconscious Is Controlling Your Life
You have your thinking mind and your subconscious mind. The best way I’ve heard the latter described is that it’s like a tape player, a computer, a processor, replaying whatever you program it to.
17 Things That Happen When You Have An Anxious Mind But A Laid Back Personality
There’s really no such thing as having an “anxious mind.” There is only having your anxiety fueled by your thoughts (which is something that everyone experiences now and again).
The Reason People “Ghost,” And 7 Other Uncomfortable Truths About Almost-Relationships Most People Don’t Realize
People can love you, and still not want to be with you.
7 Reasons We Need To Stop Leaving Relationships Early Because We’re Not Sure Someone Is “The One”
The concept of ‘the one’ is not rooted in love, it is rooted in a desire, much like most of everything else we do, to be saved from ourselves.
18 Ways To Detox Your Mind (Without Having To Go Completely Off The Grid)
Though we have miles to go in terms of growing up learning what it means to take care of our bodies, we’re even farther behind on how to take care of our minds.