The Gifts and Myths of Self-Love When Self- Love is Excluded She sat across from me, wringing her hands, her defeated head hanging.“Self-love, it just seems so…selfish.” She sighed. “After all, it’s in my nature to be selfless and to always put others before me. It’s how I was raised…why is that such a bad […]
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Feel Your Feelings – In the Right Ways Emotions Gone Wild Left untamed, emotions have the capacity to make or break our day, our relationships, our health, and our lives. No one wishes to be rattled about in their life’s backseat while stress, anger, anxiety or depression are behind the wheel. And yet, for many,
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How Pedestals Push People Away “She’s way too hot for me.”“He has so much going for him, I don’t know what he sees in me.” “She’s so perfect, I’d kill to have her life.” Sound familiar? In varying degrees, we’ve all put people on pedestals, be it a romantic interest, a friend, colleague, or stranger.
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Taking Responsibilities for Ourselves The Power of Ownership For so many of us, taking accountability for our actions is foreign or painstaking, and therefore avoided all together. When we feel offended, scorned, and resentful, we use those emotions as evidence to exonerate ourselves of any interpersonal wrongdoing. When we succumb to laziness, distractions, and stagnation,
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In Need, or Needy? “I really hate it when girls are too needy” Ouch, I retracted from the sharp sting of my then-boyfriend’s accusation.He was comparing me to a past ex he had who asked him too many questions/ was too open with him. The nerve. Was I needy? I’d previously touted being a “low-maintenance girlfriend”,
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When Online Dating is Ugly “”You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me” I thought, as my date audaciously let me in on a secret- he had a girlfriend at home who would be pissed to know of his whereabouts and whoabouts. “Check please” I requested the server, urgently. I wasn’t here to become a side piece.“Oh,
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