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Letting Go of Social Isolation
Letting Go of Social Isolation Lots of people socialize less when the weather cools. We stay inside where we are snuggly warm. With the covid headlines talking about the reimplementation of mask wearing and requiring vaccines, even more people are staying away from social gatherings. While staying safe, warm, and comfortable is good, too much
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Five Easy Changes To Create Connection
Five Easy Changes to Create Connection By far the most common complaint I hear among people in counseling is the lack of connection. Loneliness is epidemic and nobody seems to know how to do anything about it. You see, it’s not about how many friends you have on social media or how often you go
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Want a Committed Relationship? Let Go of Situationships.
Want a Committed Relationship? Let Go of Situationships. The likelihood of going from a situationship to a committed relationship isn’t great. If you want a committed relationship, let go of situationships. It’s really that easy. What’s a Situationship? A situationship is a sexual relationship that doesn’t have a defined label. It’s casual. There are no
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How to Be Okay When You’ve Grown Apart from Your BFF
How to Be Okay When You’ve Grown Apart from Your BFF I love my friends. I still keep in touch with many of them from as far back as elementary school. In my mind, our shared childhood is a treasure trove of stories that only we know, so it’s sacred. That makes it sad to
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How The Need to Know Is Blocking Your Growth
Do You Have the “Need To Know” Itis? I call the act of blocking forward movement with too many questions the “Need to Know” Itis. Let’s take a look at this Buddhist story to see what I mean. The Poisoned Arrow A man is wounded by a poisoned arrow. His family calls for a doctor,
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Are You Standing In The Way of Your Healing?
Are You Standing in the Way of Your Healing? I’ve spent my career helping people who are “hard-to-help.” Are you one of them? Are you standing in the way of your healing? You Are In Charge of Holding On and Letting Go Every healer can only offer remedies. The healing part is up to you.
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Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers
Let Go of These 5 Creativity Killers Creativity is an under-rated intelligence. If you want to succeed and remain mentally flexible, you have to exercise this skill like you would any other. So, let’s look at these 5 creativity killers so we can let them go! Worst Creativity Killers Perfectionism. Most people who strive for
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Letting Go of Unrequited Soul Mate Love
Is there anything worse than the unrequited soul mate love? You’ve found your person. You know you are destined to be together. You have nightly adventures together in your mind. Nothing has ever felt so sure or real. You just can’t believe he doesn’t know it. When will he wake up and realize your shared
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Reining In Your Emotional Reactivity
All humans are emotional. We just don’t all show it in the same way. If you have a quick, dramatic outbursts or shifts in emotions that can be overwhelming, we call that “reactive.” What a lot of people don’t understand about emotional reactivity is that it’s not a choice. It’s a trigger that fires and
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How Cultivating Humility Can Make You a Better Person
In an age of: speak up; stand strong; stand out; go big; play to win, and succeed at any cost, cultivating humility may seem like a liability. However, cultivating humility can make you a better person. To wrap your head around that, let’s take a look at what it means to have humility. The word