by Michaela | May 22, 2018 |
I think every introvert has had this painful experience. You find yourself in a social situation where you feel totally out of your element. Maybe you’re in a noisy bar with people who are only interested in shallow drunken conversations. Or, perhaps, you feel like...
by Michaela | May 8, 2018 |
Are you a social introvert? Maybe you enjoy going to parties, but you get tired midway through and fantasize about your bed and a good book. Or, perhaps, you have terrific social skills in certain contexts, like at a dinner party with friends and acquaintances, but...
by Michaela | Apr 16, 2018 |
A lot of introverts struggle with anxiety. It turns out that even those of us who think we’re calm cucumbers might have something called “high functioning anxiety”. High functioning anxiety, which is not a mental health diagnosis, but a catch phrase to describe people...
by Michaela | Apr 9, 2018 |
Dear Innie Friend, I’m writing to you from Cusco, Peru today. I came to Peru for the introvert retreat in Sacred Valley and now I’m just chillin’ up here at 3,399 meters above sea level. The other day something happened to me here in Peru that I just know other...
by Michaela | Feb 11, 2018 |
Does anyone else find this scenario really annoying? You walk into a cafe, kindle in tow, in the hopes of having a nice warm drink and nibbling on some fiction. But when you get there, electronic music blasts from the speakers. You sit and wonder whose brilliant idea...