The Softening

Why We Can't Just Let Ourselves Be Loved Already

The terrifying, but necessary practice of receiving

Oct 7 • 

Amy Dong

16

3

September 2025

The Relational Library

For those who crave love & everything around it

Sep 22 • 

Amy Dong

20

8

6

August 2025

Is Dating Just Math?

A therapist's take on The Materialists

Aug 12 • 

Amy Dong

16

12

4

July 2025

Why Romance is the Most Necessary Inconvenience

Excavating romance from the ordinary because we all can't go to Italy for the summer

Jul 15 • 

Amy Dong

27

5

13

May 2025

Our healing isn't a burst

Social anxiety, moss, and the inconvenience of slow growth

May 2 • 

Amy Dong

18

14

4

March 2025

Dangerous little thing

Can we be envious and still be good?

Mar 26 • 

Amy Dong

25

3

3

January 2025

Dopamine diaries

cheap thrills, the scarcity loop, and Benedictine monks

Jan 29 • 

Amy Dong

30

3

October 2024

Cracked open

The blessing of losing control

Oct 16, 2024 • 

Amy Dong

15

5

4

August 2024

Finding the rhythm

The slow, hard work of returning to the body

Aug 7, 2024 • 

Amy Dong

27

7

4

June 2024

The art of becoming a person

Will someone just tell me how to be?

Jun 25, 2024 • 

Amy Dong

12

3

4

May 2024

The Workshop

Releasing the myth of 'once and for all'

May 23, 2024 • 

Amy Dong

10

3

2

February 2024

The abundance affair

Our reeling minds, the practice of enough, and the art of redrawing the finish line

Feb 28, 2024 • 

Amy Dong

18

8

4