Category: Personal Development
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How To Give Discomfort More Meaning
Discomfort oftentimes is a price we have to pay for the lives we want to live. They don’t have to involve politics or prisons, but it’s good to know that “a good life” will probably never mean zero discomfort. So we either try to avoid it or normalise it and see it as the price we pay for a life of integrity.
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The Power of Good Questions
When how to express our needs is never taught, and a direct question is considered rude, learning how to ask for what we need is no small task. So how do we start asking better questions? How do we empower ourselves and cut through confusion in conversations with others?
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Are You Using Anger As a Fuel?
When times are worrisome (I do mean politics, yes!), we have to be careful not to turn to anger for fuel and not to confuse hatred with a measure of care.
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Can You Lie to Yourself Better?
Neurolinguistic programming tells us that to have a better life, we have to start having better thoughts. But how do we do that? Listen to what Marisa Peer – a therapist, speaker, author, and overall lovely lady – has to say.
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COVID Lessons, Year 2
“Happy 2-year COVID anniversary!” I thought to myself recently. And decided to do a quick episode on it.
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A Reminder For When You’re Stressed
Taking care of ourselves when we’re moving through discomfort is not a luxury. We can live without luxuries but we can’t go on if we’re constantly burned out. Here’s my reminder on why it’s important to be kind to ourselves when things are tough and how certain things that seem unimportant become the base for us to go on from.
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How to Have Better Relationships?
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships: so if relationships are at the cornerstone of how we feel, how can we improve this area of our lives? How can we deconstruct what there is to be improved (or, rather, worked on) in the first place?
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Esther Perel: The Relationship Therapist You NEED to Listen to
Eroticism, infidelity, the changing role of marriage, the increasing expectations we have for our romantic interests, how to keep that passion alive, and so much more: during decades of her practice as a therapist, there is a LOT Esther Perel is willing to share with us.
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A Simple Exercise To Move Through Discomfort
I understand it’s not enough to say “just normalise discomfort”. OK, cool, but how do we do that? What can help us to take that uncomfortable action? Luckily, there are some practical tips here.
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Expert Conversations on Trauma, Part 2
What happens to us in our childhood shapes the way our brain develops. How we respond to the world is how it makes sense for us to respond to it. Trauma – including neglect – plays an enormous part in all this. In the second article in this series, see what Dr. Bruce Perry has to say.
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