Hello! I’m Mina Solene.

Welcome to Mina, Unfiltered! I’m Mina, a 30-year-old with lots of opinions and even more questions. Mina, Unfiltered is for the person who is intellectually alive and emotionally heavy. Maybe you think in circles. Maybe you feel things longer than you’d like to. You’ve probably been told you’re "too sensitive" or "too in your head." You’re drawn to big questions — about meaning, about society, about why things are the way they are — but the answers you’ve found so far haven't quite fit.

You’re not depressed, not exactly. You're searching. And you’re slightly exhausted by a world that keeps telling you to just be positive, just be grateful, just stop overthinking.

Mina, Unfiltered is for that person because I am that person — or I was, before I found the optimistic nihilism reframe, before I became the director of my own life. I’m not speaking down to you from the other side of having figured it out. I’m walking along the same path, reaching out my hand to say, “I see you and here's what I found around the corner.”

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek into my world. I’m so glad you’re here, and I hope you find something here that sparks your curiosity.

—Mina