Rejection is something we all face whether we like it, or not. Your crush tells you they don’t see anything romantic in you; your partner says they no longer see anything romantic in you. …

Many of us don’t question our place in the world as doing so makes us uncomfortable. After all, we’re living on a floating rock in the supposedly infinite cosmos. It’s an extremely intimidating and anxiety-inducing truth to hold — if you’re someone who hasn’t questioned your beliefs before. Saying that…

On this personal growth journey, I have had several wake-up calls, or hard truths hit me like a two-by-four. One of them was this: My people-pleasing tendencies were actually rooted in selfishness rather than the “good place” I originally had thought. My attempts to people please weren’t coming from the…

Adults, on average, spend up to 50% of their waking hours daydreaming. These hours will comprise active fantasy as well as other acts of thinking such as rumination and worrying. …

I received a response from a previous reader in relation to an article I wrote on codependency that peaked my interest. …

Find yourself idolizing your romantic interests and becoming overly invested too soon? If yes, then you, my friend have a problem — and we need to address it. Having maneuvered through my own cataclysmic bad habits in dating, one thing stood out to me as pivotal to the emotional disruption…

I recently spoke of the origins of people-pleasing in an article I recommend you check out before reading this one below. Getting To The Bottom of People-Pleasing The real reason’s you just can’t say NO.medium.com People-pleasing is necessary at best and downright debilitating at worst. Most of us fall into the latter conversation. …

Wise Words That Helped Me Grow — If someone asked me for one piece of advice to help them on their personal growth journey it would be this; Learn to recognize what you can and cannot control, and direct your attention only to the things you can change. Why? Because so many of us waste precious time…

Carl Jung, the pioneering swiss physiatrist who founded analytical psychology, believed that the false self was a “violation of the natural disposition” of the authentic human experience. He believed it to be a serious problem in the patients he saw in the early 1900s with their symptoms being a direct…