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When Your Relationship Doesn’t Nurture You
Is It Time to Go? Everyone wants a partner who is attentive, gets them, inspires them to be the best version of themselves, and inspires them to grow. We want to see the vision of ourselves that is reflected back to us in their eyes as someone who is lovely. But what do you do
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Are You Creeping People Out? (And How to Stop)
Nobody Wants to Be Creepy Nobody wants to be creepy, but what do you do when you overhear someone’s comment about a creep, and it turns out they are talking about you! How do you know if you are creeping people out? How do you stop? What Makes a Person Creepy There isn’t a definitive
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How To Let Go of a Relationship You Still Want
When The Love Lives Longer Than the Relationship It happens. The love outlasts the relationship sometimes. Someone transfers with their job. Someone doesn’t feel the same as the other. Or maybe college ends and one person is returning home. Sometimes there are deal breakers that make a long term match untenable. Maybe there is a
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Are You Seeing Your Parents Realistically?
Growing Up Means Realizing Your Parents Are Flawed When working with people to help them let go of childhood issues, it is common to get new insight that changes the way we see our parents. We have to incorporate this new information in order to move forward. When that proves challenging, it can be a
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What You Don’t Know About Loneliness, But Should
The Epidemic of Loneliness Many of societies’ problems can be traced back to loneliness addiction – substance abuse, eatingdepressionprostitutionthe hook up culturetransactional relationships All of these things, and many more, happen because we all just want to be seen and experience the intimacy of belonging. When we can’t get what we want, we either find
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The Fascinating Difference Between Letting Go and Quitting
Is Seeing Things Through Always the Right Thing to Do? If you had parents who tried to instill you with positive values, you probably heard things like “You’ve got to honor your commitments” and “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” It’s no surprise that people with this type of mindset are far
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Want to Be Amazing? Upgrade Your Circle!
We’re all mirrors for each other What Are Your Peeps Doing? Motivational speaker, Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” So, what are your peeps doing? Escaping from life? Grinding through life? Sleeping? Or living in an inspired, involved, connected way? What they are doing,
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“It Wasn’t Me!” How Defensiveness is Not Attractive
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Definition of Sexy When we’re twenty-one, the only criterion that most of us have for defining whether someone is attractive or not is looks. It’s an “If the exterior looks good, I want it” type of attitude. However, once you get burned by that a time or two, it’s time
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People Pleasing: Why We Do It and How to Stop
“I Just Want to Be Nice” Many people pleasers think that they do what they do because they want to be nice. They think they are helping. People please is a trauma response. It’s called fawning. We do it to stay safe, avoid criticism, fit in, and feel good about ourselves. It’s a way to
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How to Stop Objectifying People
Why Objectifying People is a Problem Objectification in western society is so common that we don’t even respond to it. It’s an accepted norm. We talk about celebrities as if they aren’t real people with real feelings. We post photos of strangers in Walmart with captions so others can laugh at them. Young, scantily clad