There are patterns to unlearn, there are assertions to be challenged.
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Regrets Without Shame
Hold yourself accountable for not-great behavior and use that knowledge to propel you toward different future choices.
Hold yourself accountable for not-great behavior and use that knowledge to propel you toward different future choices.
5 Ways to Feel Anxiety (In Order to Get Rid of It)
We may be bypassing and actively trying to avoid feeling anxiety. Here are ways to focus on feeling the anxiety.
We may be bypassing and actively trying to avoid feeling anxiety. Here are ways to focus on feeling the anxiety.
Anxiety and the Illusion of Control
In reality we control nothing.
Controlling behaviors can be an attempt to not feel anxious. We’re better off allowing ourselves to feel anxious because control and anxiety don’t go so well together. When many of us get anxious our default response is to pull it together, make plans, and be in charge. Now there are times when this way of…
Can There Be Good Anxiety?
And how do we recognize the difference between good and not-so-good?
And how do we recognize the difference between good and not-so-good?
We Don’t Talk Enough About Money and Therapy Part 2
Money makes it complicated.
Money makes it complicated.
3 Things to Look at if Your Relationship Feels Smothered
The key is finding a balance between holding onto our identity and having a space of reliance on one another.
The key is finding a balance between holding onto our identity and having a space of reliance on one another.
We Don’t Talk Enough About Money and Therapy
It makes many people very uncomfortable.
It makes many people very uncomfortable.
Decrease Your Chronic Pain Using Psychology
Redirecting possibly unknown negative emotional energy towards physical healing may decrease the pain.
Redirecting possibly unknown negative emotional energy towards physical healing may decrease the pain.
Want to Be a Better Man? Build Your Self-Compassion
Looking deeply at the reasons we acted a certain way and self-compassionate view allow us to shift things for next time.
Looking deeply at the reasons we acted a certain way and self-compassionate view allow us to shift things for next time.
5 Ways to Tell Whether You Are Ready to Take the Leap
How to know when you may have the necessary skills, but lack the confidence to actually do what you want to do.
How to know when we may have the necessary skills, but lack the confidence to actually do what you want to do.
Passive-Aggressive Parenting
Finding a way to communicate in a healthy manner and trusting each other enough to be vulnerable is the way to go.
Finding a way to communicate in a healthy manner and trusting each other enough to be vulnerable is the way to go.
Avoid Avoiding Loneliness
Trying to escape feeling lonely stops us from making connections with others—connections that give us life.
Trying to escape feeling lonely stops us from making connections with others—connections that give us life.
Archie Andrews, Toxic Masculinity and Me
Insight alone doesn’t heal us but examining the unquestioned, accepted way of being gives choices.
Insight alone doesn’t heal us but examining the unquestioned, accepted way of being gives choices.
Our Parents Don’t Need Our Emotional Protection
You’re going to need to allow yourself to trust that if you let out your emotions that you can find your way back.
You’re going to need to allow yourself to trust that if you let out your emotions that you can find your way back.
Feel Like You’re Defective in Relationships?
It's important to look at patterns in past relationships, expectations, and emotional triggers.
It’s important to look at patterns in past relationships, expectations, and emotional triggers.