Tori Reid

Tori Reid

Columbus, OH, USA
Apr
17
How to Feel Your Feelings Instead of Intellectualizing Them

How to Feel Your Feelings Instead of Intellectualizing Them

The issue isn't that our feelings grow so big they overwhelm us. It's that we shrink to become them, because we've forgotten the rest of who we are.
16 min read
Apr
11
The Art of Suffering

The Art of Suffering

I dedicate this article to my father, and a practice that's saved my life on more than one occasion.
23 min read
Apr
08
Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety

We are mirrors.
2 min read
Apr
08
Is it Love, or Something Else?

Is it Love, or Something Else?

At some point, we have to ask ourselves: How are we defining love to the point where we get it so wrong so often?
10 min read
Mar
29
Inward.

Inward.

Sometimes I forget that several generations of lived experience already exist inside my DNA and I've barely scratched the surface of unpacking them from the inside.
1 min read
Mar
14
Safe Anger

Safe Anger

People can only hear, understand, and soothe your anger when they aren't busy protecting themselves from the blows of your aggression.
3 min read
Feb
22
The Missing Question.

The Missing Question.

I love you. But I can't make you receive my love.
2 min read
Jan
31
We Don't Always Get Both.

We Don't Always Get Both.

Sometimes, discovering what it means to thrive requires us to first discover how to put the fight for survival down.
1 min read
Jan
22
Not Parenting Advice.

Not Parenting Advice.

I don't give parenting advice because I'm not a parent, and parents have made it clear
4 min read
Jan
08
Craft Your Life - #toritalk

Craft Your Life - #toritalk

2 min read