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A little piece of me, bound in black and gold. 🌿Flip through a few pages of my mind. 🕯️Written & illustrated by me, T I ...
08/23/2026

A little piece of me, bound in black and gold. 🌿
Flip through a few pages of my mind. 🕯️

Written & illustrated by me, T I A N A W I N S T E A D

Available on Amazon, through my online store at the link in my bio, and at select bookstores in Washington, D.C. and California. 📚

07/27/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 28: Bear Your Burden

Don’t become someone else’s burden because you refused to carry your own. The hardest conversations, the difficult decisions, the uncomfortable responsibilities… they’re yours. Carry your burden, or someone else will doesn’t have to care what you say.

07/20/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 27: Credibility Is Everything. One lie can outweigh a hundred truths. Just ask the O.J. Simpson trial. Find a cockroach in your spaghetti, and you’re not taking another bite… even if the rest looks fine.

Credibility works the same way. Once people question one part of your story, they start questioning all of it.

06/08/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 26: Your First Answer Is Rarely Your Best Answer

Your emotional support message is the one you draft 15 times, read dramatically in your head, imagine them crying after reading it… and then save to drafts and never send.

Our first reaction is usually written by emotion. Our best reaction is usually written by time.

Not every text needs to be sent. Not every argument needs to be won. And not every thought deserves immediate publication.

Sometimes the smartest response is Version 16. Sometimes it’s no response at all. ❤️

06/01/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 25: Loss Aversion

Here’s a weird quirk of human psychology: losing $100 hurts more than finding $100 feels good.

Which explains why gym ads, insurance companies, politicians, and marketers all seem oddly obsessed with what you’ll lose.

The next time something feels urgent, ask yourself: am I reacting to the facts… or to the fear of losing something?

Strong thinkers don’t just analyze the message. They analyze why the message works. ❤️

05/26/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 24: You Can’t Unhear Something.

Judges tell juries to “disregard that statement” like the human brain has a delete button. It doesn’t. I cannot forget what I just heard no matter how many times you tell me.

First impressions stick, rumors linger, and dramatic headlines settle into your brain long before the correction arrives. So we gotta practice the art of processing what it is that we hear.

05/18/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 23: Fair trials matter more than fast verdicts. You can believe someone is guilty and still believe they deserve a fair trial. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

If a referee helps one team during the game, people stop trusting the final score, even if the better team probably would’ve won anyway.

Justice only works if people trust the process.

I’m excited to see this spin series! 🍿

05/11/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 22: Bring Back Reading Before Bed

Your brain knows the difference between reading and doomscrolling… even if you pretend it doesn’t.

If you’re on TikTok at 1:07 a.m. convincing yourself “one more video” counts as relaxing, this is your sign, we have a problem.

A few pages of a real book will do more for your brain than an hour of overstimulation ever will.

Bring back reading before bed. Your sleep, attention span, and sanity will thank you.

05/04/2026

🎥 🎞️ Rule 21: One Event. Many Perspectives. Same event. Different story. The mistake?
Thinking yours is the only one.

One perspective isn’t the truth… I’m sorry,
it’s just the angle you’re standing in.

Look again. 😉

04/21/2026

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