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A searchable library of curated practices and AI-curated world news, gently re-framed in Love Atlas voice. Browse by country, by category, by medium — or search for a place, a tool, a feeling.
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- LoveTokyo · Japan
Daily 'otsukaresama' check-ins between partners
Couples send hand-drawn sticker messages each evening — a gentle ritual of acknowledgement after a long day.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveSeoul · South Korea
Couple apps tracking anniversaries and shared diaries
Young couples count days together, share private photo timelines, and celebrate every 100-day milestone.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveSalvador · Brazil
Family WhatsApp groups as living altars
Grandmothers send morning blessings via voice note; cousins across continents stay woven into daily life.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveLagos · Nigeria
Diaspora love letters in long voice notes
Partners separated by migration narrate full days into 20-minute voice notes — closeness across an ocean.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveMumbai · India
Family-mediated matchmaking gone digital
Parents and aunties co-curate profiles; love is a community project, not a solo swipe.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveParis · France
Slow-dating apps countering swipe fatigue
One curated match per day. A return to attention, savoring, and the long letter.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveOaxaca · Mexico
Digital ofrendas for ancestors
Families build virtual Día de Muertos altars, tagging photographs of loved ones who have passed.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingLos Angeles · United States
Sleep stories and guided breath
Millions fall asleep to celebrity-narrated bedtime stories — a return to being read to.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingStockholm · Sweden
Friluftsliv tracking — outdoor life as therapy
Apps map mossy trails and wild swimming spots, encouraging a national prescription of forest air.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingAuckland · New Zealand
Māori-led mental wellness apps
Built on whakapapa and whānau values — wellbeing as belonging to land and lineage.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingBangkok · Thailand
Streamed temple meditations at dawn
Monks broadcast 4am chanting; commuters press play before opening their eyes.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingBerlin · Germany
Therapy reimbursed via app
Krankenkassen cover digital CBT programs — care made ordinary, prescribed like vitamin D.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingToronto · Canada
Peer support text lines
A trained ear, two thumbs away, in 47 languages.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingBali · Indonesia
Live-streamed sound baths from rice terraces
Healers in Ubud hold global circles where singing bowls travel through fiber optic cable.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingSydney · Australia
Surf-and-talk men's groups, recorded for podcasts
After dawn surfs, men sit in circle on the sand. Their conversations become podcasts about feeling.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingKigali · Rwanda
SMS-based trauma support after genocide
Counselors reach rural survivors via text, weaving care into the simplest phones.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingJohannesburg · South Africa
WhatsApp groups for grief after Covid
Strangers who lost spouses became choirs of voice notes — singing each other through the night.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingLondon · United Kingdom
NHS-prescribed VR for PTSD and pain
Patients enter calm forests with a headset; the brain is gently shown safety again.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingBogotá · Colombia
Restorative justice circles on Telegram
Former combatants and victims meet in encrypted rooms to listen, name harm, and begin again.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingTehran · Iran
Underground therapy over Signal
Women therapists hold rooms about freedom, body, and grief — encryption as a form of care.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingKyiv · Ukraine
Tele-therapy from bomb shelters
Psychologists work between sirens, holding sessions for soldiers and children alike.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingAddis Ababa · Ethiopia
Diaspora-funded mental health hotlines
Ethiopians abroad sponsor home calls, turning remittances into therapy minutes.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingKarachi · Pakistan
Anonymous mental health apps for women
Spaces to name what cannot be said aloud — held by trained counselors, free of judgement.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingManila · Philippines
OFW family video calls as ritual
Domestic workers abroad tuck their children into bed via video each night — twelve hours apart, still present.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveMadrid · Spain
Voice-note love letters at sobremesa
After lunch lingering, Spaniards send rambling, affectionate audio missives — la palabra hablada as caress.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveCairo · Egypt
Quranic recitations gifted between fiancés
Couples share verses each morning — devotion braided with romance.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveBuenos Aires · Argentina
Tango community livestreams from milongas
Dancers stream embraces; lovers across the world feel the bandoneón breathe.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingOslo · Norway
Daylight-tracking apps for polar darkness
Citizens track lumens like vitamins through the long dark, scheduling sun like medicine.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingHanoi · Vietnam
Group tai chi by Hoan Kiem at sunrise, livestreamed
Elders broadcast morning movements to grandchildren in distant cities — bodies remembering together.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingChengdu · China
Anonymous confession 'trees' on WeChat
Strangers leave secrets at digital wishing trees; others reply with witness, never advice.
- Digital
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingLisbon · Portugal
Fado sung at the kitchen table for a grieving neighbor
When someone in the building loses someone, the woman upstairs sings down the stairwell. Saudade as a technology older than wires.
- Sonic
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingOaxaca · Mexico
Rebozos woven during a mother's chemotherapy
Daughters weave a shawl for every round of treatment. The loom keeps time the body cannot. The cloth holds her after.
- Visual
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingIstanbul · Turkey
Sufi zikr circles in a Beyoğlu lodge
Strangers gather at dusk to repeat the names of the divine until the room becomes one breathing thing. A technology of attention seven centuries old.
- Embodied
- Sonic
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveSeoul · South Korea
Handwritten letters between estranged siblings
After ten years of silence, an older brother begins writing. One letter a month. No reply expected. The paper softens what speech could not.
- Written
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingDakar · Senegal
Sabar drum circles for women after birth
Forty days after delivery, the neighborhood gathers. The drum carries the new mother back into her body, and the women dance her home.
- Embodied
- Sonic
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingRotorua · New Zealand
Haka performed at a kaumātua's tangihanga
Grandsons learn the haka their grandfather taught them by performing it back to him as he is laid to rest. Grief moves through the soles of the feet.
- Embodied
- Sonic
Curatedarchived 2y ago - Well-beingKautokeino · Norway
Sámi reindeer-herders walking the migration their grandparents walked
Each spring the herd is moved to the coast along paths held in memory for a thousand years. The land is not a backdrop — it is a relative, and the walking is how the relationship is kept.
- Embodied
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingCape Town · South Africa
Choir singing to the Liesbeek River at dawn
A small group meets at the riverbank before sunrise to sing — apologies, gratitude, lullabies. The water is treated as someone who can be sung to. After a season, the singers say the river feels less alone, and so do they.
- Sonic
- Embodied
Curatedarchived 2y ago - HealingGlasgow · United Kingdom
Climate-grief café in a community hall
Once a fortnight, strangers gather to name what they are losing — a glacier, a bird call, a coastline, a sense of future. Nothing is fixed. The grief is simply held in the same room until it is less heavy to carry alone.
- Embodied
Curatedarchived 2y ago - LoveMexico City · Mexico
Murals along the canals for the axolotl
Painters along the Xochimilco canals are covering walls with portraits of the axolotl — endangered, endemic, smiling. The murals are a small public devotion: a city naming aloud the small relative it has nearly lost, and refusing to lose it quietly.
- Visual
Curatedarchived 2y ago