New Column: City Soul
In a city that never sleeps—but rarely slows down—we need voices that help us pause. We need writers who don’t just report what’s happening, but reflect on what it means. That’s where Nia Deveraux comes in.
Nia is a Brooklyn-born storyteller, wellness educator, and emotional ethicist. She writes from the intersections of city life and spiritual life—where survival meets softness, where urgency meets empathy, where we learn how to care in a world that keeps trying to harden us.
Her new Mood Magazine column, City Soul, asks the deeper questions:
What does it mean to be a good neighbor in a disconnected city?
What does urban wellness look like—for real?
And how do we stay soft when the city wants us to go numb?
Her first piece, To Help or Not to Help: The Ethics of Looking Away, unpacks the quiet heartbreak of watching someone fall—and doing nothing. It’s about fans and bike crashes. Boundaries and survival. And the question that sits inside all of us: What would I want someone to do for me?
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📍 Follow Nia’s work in our new City Soul section—where healing, justice, and humani
