Climbing Some Stupid Mountains

Analogies From an Empathetic Heart

Synthia Stark
Curious
Published in
4 min readDec 5, 2020

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Photo by Ameer Basheer on Unsplash — “Hah, take that you stupid mountain! I’m on top!”

On the surface, I act like things don’t bother me and people are always amazed that I somehow seem relatively composed, even during the worst of times. This isn’t really the case.

I’ve probably climbed a lot of colossal and jagged mountains to get to my current state, all the while putting on the visage like those things never…

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Synthia Stark
Curious

Canadian Therapist & Former Researcher | 5x Top Writer | Writing about mental health, psychology, science, etc. https://linktr.ee/SynthiaS