Psychology, identity, trauma, disability, grief, society, and the messy business of being human.
I’m still figuring things out…
But maybe that’s the point.
Becoming Zave is a space where I explore psychology, identity, trauma, disability, grief, society and the messy business of being human.
Some of what I write comes from lived experience, and some of what I write comes from textbooks and research papers, but most of it comes from somewhere in between.
Some things are difficult to put into words.
The experiences that don’t fit neatly into a diagnosis.
The questions that don’t have simple answers.
The parts of ourselves we don’t always understand.
The things society insists we don’t talk about.
This is where I write about them.
I’m Zave, a psychology student and writer with a fascination for understanding people; why we behave, think and feel the way we do, and how our individual worlds shape who we become.
My writing sits somewhere between lived experience and psychology. Sometimes that means talking about deeply personal things, and sometimes it means exploring psychological research and theory.
Very often, it means both.
Because I don’t think psychology belongs only in lectures and textbooks.
Psychology is all around us.
It’s in the way we understand ourselves.
It’s in the relationships we build.
The identities we form.
The things we believe.
The things we fear.
And the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
Understanding ourselves, and knowing that someone else gets it, doesn’t necessarily make things hurt less.
But it can make us feel a little less alone.