About Across Minds

Across Minds aims to explore how different cultures interpret mental health, an interest rooted in witnessing others’ navigation of emotional silence within my all-girls school. The blog investigates the unspoken ways people process pain and healing, especially through language and facial microexpressions. We draw on psychology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and anthropology to write bi-weekly articles.

The first essay went up in June 2025. There are now 35 essays across three sections, with 15,455 views in all.

Sections

• Psycholinguistics
  How the words we have, and the languages we speak, shape what we feel. (13 essays)
• Neuropsychology & Expression
  What the mind and body do with emotion, and how it shows on the surface. (19 essays)
• Anthropological Insights
  How cultures and communities live with feeling, ritual, memory and each other. (12 essays)

Writers

• Selina HuangFounder and editor
• Finn O'ShaughnessyGuest writer
• Linda F.Y.Guest writer
• Marco ZhengGuest writer
• Xuehui ZhangGuest writer: National Level-II Marriage and Family Counselor; Board Member, China Erickson Institute of Hypnosis

Listen

Selina also hosts Silent Threads, a podcast on Spotify.

Contact

Write to Selinahuang813@gmail.com.