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Nato Lagidze
Contributor at The Artful Age
- 16 stories
- Writing since 2026
Nato is a writer and a researcher with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, psychological well-being, and the ways people make decisions. Writing about recent trends in the movie industry is her other hobby, alongside music, art, culture, and social influences. She dreams to create an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.
Signature pieces
- + The Journal People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent years as someone's emergency contact and… Aug 21, 2026
- + The Journal I used to think it was strange that my parents still needed to weigh in on decisions that were entirely mine to make… Aug 9, 2026
- + The Journal A study of older adults living with or near their adult children found the arrangement supported their sense of… Aug 7, 2026
All stories
- Aug 4, 2026 Home used to answer for safety. This time the answer was grass, and my mother's hand, and a woman I had known for… + The Journal
- Jul 17, 2026 Solitude and loneliness get treated as the same feeling, but anyone who has lived through both will tell you they are… + The Journal
- Jul 1, 2026 My father has never once told me he worries about becoming less necessary in my life, but I've started noticing how… + The Journal
- Jun 23, 2026 A neuroscientist explains why the second year of grief can feel harder than the first + The Journal
- Jun 19, 2026 Your personality may have been largely determined before you formed your first memory + The Journal
- Jun 9, 2026 The reason lullabies exist in every culture on earth is probably not musical — it's physiological + The Journal
- Jun 5, 2026 We have normalised adjusting ourselves so completely around other people that by the time the relationship ends or the… + The Journal
- Jun 3, 2026 Buying your first home can feel less like arrival and more like a quiet identity crisis + The Journal
- May 29, 2026 People who end up writing aren't always the ones with the most to say + The Journal