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Understanding Grief Avoidance: Why You Keep Carrying On Without Processing the Loss

Published June 2026

Key Takeaways: What should you know about grief avoidance? Grief avoidance can make loss feel less immediate, but it does not mean the grief has disappeared. Some people appear “fine” because staying busy, composed, or practical helps them avoid feeling …

Five Years Later: Reflecting on Marriage, Culture, and Growing Together Through MPP

Published May 2026

Simon and Melissa first met as classmates in Melbourne in 2018, after being placed in the same university project group. What began as friendship gradually grew into a relationship, and after more than two years of long distance between Singapore and Shanghai following their …

Why I can’t make simple decisions and what the brain is inferring

Published May 2026

The tab has been open for eleven days. It’s a dentist appointment. Two clicks to book. You’ve looked at it four times, closed it each time, and told yourself you’ll do it later. Meanwhile, you’ve sent three reports to your boss, fielded …

Even Emotionally Intelligent Couples Struggle With Emotional Conversations

Published April 2026

Why Even Emotionally Intelligent Couples Struggle With Emotional Conversations (And What That Says About Love, Vulnerability, and the Way We’re Wired) You are, by most measures, good at life. You handle pressure at work. You communicate clearly with colleagues. You …

Putting Down My Baggage: Finding Growth Through Counselling

Published April 2026

Alamin, 37, works in family services, supporting individuals through counselling and casework. Having recently completed a Master’s in Counselling, his journey into the helping profession spans working with children, youth, and adults. Having grown up with a father in the …

Emotion-Focused Coping or Avoidance? Understanding Escapism as a Coping Strategy

Published March 2026

It often begins with a search bar. After a difficult week, someone types how to cope with anxiety at work. After a relationship ends, they search how to cope with break-up. On quieter evenings, the question might be how to …

Building Understanding Before “I Do”: How MPP Helped Us Prepare for Marriage

Published March 2026

Hong Cho (31) and Esther (30) met in the most modern way possible: through a dating app during the COVID-19 period. After two months of texting through lockdown, they finally met in person and have now been together for over …

“I Thought I Just Had to Persevere”

Published February 2026

How Jun Wei found clarity and steadiness after years of carrying stress alone. Jun Wei, 28, is a teacher who had been quietly carrying work stress for several years. What began as internal pressure and self-doubt eventually manifested physically in …

Is There Always Wisdom Gleaned Through Pain?

Published February 2026

We love to romanticise our scars. Every heartbreak becomes a “lesson in self-worth.” Every failure is a “stepping stone.” Every loss must have a “reason.” But what if it doesn’t? What if some pain simply exists in its raw, unjust, …

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