Helping you tame your inner socio

Category: therapy

  • don’t send tuna

    don’t send tuna

    Today is my mom’s birthday. She’s been gone a few years, maybe 6 or so, but I still like to think about her on her birthday.  I still go to the cemetery, stone her and my dad and then send pics. (See “Everybody must get stoned”  for context.)  It a Jewish tradition thing. https://growuptobesocio.com/2025/06/15/everyone-must-get-stoned/ I…

  • misery loves revenge

    misery loves revenge

    I think most people have heard the phrase, “misery loves company.”  I know I have. Today I’d like to propose a new reimagined version, “Misery loves revenge”. What do you think?  Can we work with it? I know I can in a very socio sort of way. Let me tell you about my thought process…

  • dead to me box

    dead to me box

    I have a box. Not in the physical sense but in the emotional sense. I keep all my emotional baggage in it. If it was a real box, it might be giant-sized.  It might take up a whole room or a whole house.  But because, in true socio fashion, I prefer to hide my emotions,…

  • signs of mad-ness

    signs of mad-ness

    Today I want to talk about insanity as it relates to anger.  Have you ever been in a situation when someone is so angry they go from mad to madness in an instant? Right in front of your eyes, in real time?  What do you do? What can you say? How do you get out…

  • happy to be alone but sad

    happy to be alone but sad

    I was thinking this week about happiness and sadness. Emotions that are opposite on the feelings scale, can you be both at the same time?  My socio soul is always happy to be alone.  As an introverted socio, I recharge by spending time alone doing what I like to do, reading, thinking, listening to music,…

  • hell no

    hell no

    Being a self-proclaimed socio, most of my daily life is dark already.  I usually wake up salty because I have to get out of my nice warm, soft bed.  I have to tend to pets, let out dogs, feed cats and forage for food for all.  Some days I wake up and just think HELL…

  • i know i’m broken, don’t try to fix me

    i know i’m broken, don’t try to fix me

    We all have our things, our story, our childhood trauma, that situation that makes us damaged humans.  If you want, you can deny it but deep down there is something that makes you who are you and it might not be good.  You don’t want to talk about it, not really. But if you do…

  • no one plans a murder out loud

    no one plans a murder out loud

    Today I want to talk about Silence. Silence is golden. The full idiom is “speech is silver, but silence is golden” meaning that words are important, but sometimes it is better to say nothing. Source: theidioms.com This phrase was translated from German to English in 1831 by poet Thomas Carlyle. I found that there are many…