I Never Needed to Be Healed
MUSHY CEO From Your Mushy CEO My Favorite Part of the Day Lately my favorite part of the day is dinner. We all eat together as a family, sit around and talk, and do one thorn and one rose, where everyone shares the hardest part of their day and the best part. That’s my favorite […]
Rebuild Your Nervous System’s Rhythm Before Fall Hits
Cortisol runs higher in fall and winter than it does in spring and summer, and its daily rhythm shifts too, according to research on seasonal cortisol patterns. That means the “September feeling,” heavier, more reactive, harder to settle, has a real physiological basis. Building a daily rhythm now, rather than waiting for October to feel […]
Why “I Don’t Feel Like Myself Anymore” Is the Most Common Thing Women Say After 35
A 2024 survey published in the journal Menopause found that 63.3% of women ages 35 to 55 reported not feeling like themselves at least half the time over a three-month period. Brain imaging research offers a real explanation: a specific brain network tied to rumination and self-focus becomes more active under chronic stress, and certain […]
Rhythm: The Formula I Helped Create for Women, By Women
MUSHY CEO At the beginning of this year, I sat down with our formulation team to talk about what we wanted to bring into the world in 2026. Something had been dropped into me very clearly, and that was that I needed something for the women in my life, and for me, that speaks directly […]
The Gut-Brain Connection Nobody Talks About in Elevated Wellness
Almost every conversation about microdosing focuses on the brain. The prefrontal cortex. Serotonin receptors. Neuroplasticity. BDNF. The default mode network. These are real and documented mechanisms, and they matter. But there’s a part of the story that almost no elevated wellness content covers: the gut has its own nervous system, and it’s not a passive […]
The Invisible Load Doesn’t Take a Summer Off
She planned the vacation and remembered to pack everyone’s sunscreen, tracked who needed which pediatric appointment in September, kept the work Slack notifications on even at the beach, and made sure the house felt calm for everyone around her while quietly wondering when she was going to feel calm herself. She’s not struggling, technically. She’s […]
Your Nervous System Doesn’t Know It’s August (But Your Body Does)
It happens every year. The calendar says August, the weather is still warm, the days are still long, and something underneath all of it starts to tighten. A low-grade restlessness. A sense that there’s something coming that needs preparing for, even when you can’t name it. A sleep that doesn’t quite restore the way it […]
What Quiet Actually Feels Like: A Guide to the Zen Family
Most people who find Golden Rule have already done the research. They’ve read the articles, watched the documentaries, maybe listened to a podcast or two. They understand, conceptually, that m!cr0d05!ng is different from recreational use. What they can’t quite picture is what it actually feels like from the inside, specifically at a dose so low […]
Who’s the Hundred Million Dollar You (And Why You Don’t Have to Wait to Become Them)
There’s a pause I take now before almost everything. Before I answer my kid when I’m tired. Before I respond to an email that stirred something up. Before I walk into a room full of people I don’t know. I didn’t used to have that pause. I used to just react, straight from whatever version […]
What Golden Rule Has Given Us — Real Stories From the Community
The quiet wins. The unexpected moments. The things people didn’t see coming. Transformation rarely looks the way we expect it to. We come in looking for one thing — better focus, less anxiety, a cleaner relationship with stress — and somewhere along the way, something else shifts. Something we didn’t have words for until after […]