Other emotions have their place too. What is Toxic Positivity? Toxic positivity is a manner that promotes positive thinking to antidote all negative expressions and feelings. It’s the idea that you should merrily turn those lemons into lemonade, even when you’d be better served by the relief of just smashing the damn lemons instead. Toxic […]
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At some point, you may have experienced the displeasure of being in a one-sided friendship. Rather than consisting of a balanced give-and-take relationship, a one-sided friendship tends to include one person who fits the role of the Taker, and the other person as the Giver. The unreciprocated energy, care, and resources beget resentment, disappointment, and
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Are you involved in a one-sided friendship? How selfishness throws off the balance One-sided friendships are characterized by one friend consistently pulling most of the weight in effort, time, resources, etc. Rather than the dynamic being a functional reciprocation, in a one-sided friendship there is no balance of give-and-take, with one person doing most of
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Managing Ourselves – How to Conflict Better If you have a pulse and exist in this world, inevitably you experience conflicts and arguments, be it with a loved one, a stranger, or someone in between. Our patterns of how we respond to and manage conflict may vary depending on who is involved (perhaps you manage
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How Embracing Conflict Can Reduce It Last week we touched on conflict resolution for folks who often find themselves in contentious situations (if you missed it, click here). But for many of us the opposite is true-We avoid conflict out of fear from the discomfort that arises from it, generally because we want to people-please.
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