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.
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.
If You’re Afraid Of Love Because You’re Afraid Of Loss: This Is For You
A few years ago, I realized I needed to lose some weight. As soon as I was conscious of it, I was also suddenly hyper-aware of my overeating.
18 Things We Forget To Thank Our Exes For
For showing you what needed to be healed.
16 Scientific Reasons Why People Who Are Socially Anxious Are Usually Highly Intelligent
Many people know there’s a neurological correlation between being highly creative and mentally ill, but few seem to realize that the same is true between being socially anxious and highly intelligent.
12 Reasons Why Logical People Lead Better Lives (In A Generation Where “Passion” Is At A Premium)
Take $150K in loans to study something you “love” for 5+ years, but not be able to move out/travel/get married/have kids/work a job you actually like because you’re drowning in debt for the next 30. That’s what passion does.
Breaking Your ‘Upper Limit’: 12 Ways People Hold Themselves Back From Real Happiness
Happiness is not a rush of positive emotion elicited by random events that affirm the way you think something should go. Not sustainable happiness, anyway.
