About Fillip Kosorukov
I write about wellness through the lens of psychology and behavioral science.
Most wellness content online is opinion stacked on more opinion. The advice rotates seasonally, citations are rare, and the underlying mechanisms — why a habit forms or breaks, why motivation comes and goes, why recovery from stress works the way it does — often go unaddressed. That bothered me enough to start writing here.
This site is where I translate the peer-reviewed psychology research I trained in into practical writing about habits, mental health, motivation, and personal growth. The goal isn’t to add another voice to the wellness noise. It’s to do the harder, slower work of explaining what the research actually shows — and what it doesn’t.
My Research Background
I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2020, graduating summa cum laude. During my undergraduate years I worked as a research assistant in UNM’s MATEO Lab — Motivation, Addiction, and Temporal decision-making in Emerging-adult Outcomes — under faculty studying behavior change, addiction recovery, and the psychology of decision-making.
That work led to peer-reviewed contributions published by Taylor & Francis and indexed in PubMed, the Web of Science, and Scopus. The full list of publications is on my Google Scholar profile and ORCID record.
The research questions I cared about then are the same ones I write about here: Why do people behave the way they do? What can be changed at the margins? What does the science actually say about habits, motivation, and recovery — beyond the popular versions of those ideas that get repeated everywhere?
Why a Wellness Site
I write in a few places. My main site covers my full work — software products (LocalMention.io, FixMyRecord.io, Resilience), trading and real estate at Resilient Capital LLC, and academic research. My research page lists peer-reviewed publications. My Substack covers reflections on solo entrepreneurship and behavioral economics.
This site exists because there’s a specific kind of writing I want to do that doesn’t fit those other places: long-form translations of psychology research into wellness practice — for non-academic readers who want the actual research, not the influencer summary.
The pieces here:
- Cite primary sources. Where I make a claim about behavior change, motivation, or stress, I link to the underlying research and explain its limits.
- Acknowledge uncertainty. Wellness content tends to over-promise. Real research findings come with effect sizes, replication caveats, and population limits. I keep those in.
- Emphasize mechanism over technique. Knowing why a habit-formation strategy works (or doesn’t) is more useful than memorizing the strategy. The mechanism is also harder to get wrong.
- Reflect lived experience honestly. I’ve personally tried many of the practices I write about. Where my experience aligns with the research I say so. Where it doesn’t, I say that too.
Topics
The four ongoing pillars on this site:
Habits — How habits actually form and break, drawing on motivation theory, environmental design research, and self-determination theory. Concrete strategies grounded in the experimental literature.
Mental Health — Stress, recovery, and resilience from a research perspective. What contemporary psychology says about anxiety, burnout, attention, and emotional regulation — including where the research is still genuinely uncertain.
Personal Growth — Long-form essays at the intersection of psychology and lived practice. Less prescriptive, more exploratory. The kind of writing where I’m working out my own thinking in public.
Psychology — Translations of specific research findings or theoretical frameworks into accessible writing. The goal is “Wikipedia entry quality, written for humans” — accurate, sourced, and readable.
Where to Find Me
Academic:
- Google Scholar — peer-reviewed publications
- ORCID: 0009-0004-1430-2859 — academic identifier
- ResearchGate — research profile
- Academia.edu — paper repository
Other writing:
- Substack — long-form essays on entrepreneurship and behavior
- Medium — selected articles
- Dev.to and Hashnode — technical writing
- Tumblr — link hub and short-form notes
Other sites:
- fillipkosorukov.net — main personal hub
- fillipkosorukov.me — bio mirror
Email: fillip@fillipkosorukov.net (best for press, podcasts, or thoughtful reader correspondence)
A note on what I don’t do: I’m not a clinician. Nothing on this site is medical advice or therapy. If you’re dealing with serious mental health challenges, the research-backed answer is to work with a licensed professional — not to read a blog post.