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When an Anxious dates an Avoidant
Dating an individual with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style is not impossible, but it is challenging (especially for an anxious-attacher aka an individual with an anxious-preoccupied attachment style). A healthy relationship is possible when both parties...

The First Step to Emotional Maturity is Self-Compassion
If you were raised by parents who had a habit of being overly critical, who suppressed their emotions or suppressed yours, and who had a habit of blaming you instead of taking responsibility themselves…

Healthy Communication in Relationships with Low Self-Esteem
A big part of your relationships is how you relate to one another. Looking at the longer relationships in your life currently, how do you feel about those people today? Is there any lingering resentment?

How Low Self-Esteem is Sabotaging Your Chances at Love
Have you been struggling to maintain a healthy, stable relationship? Do you keep meeting these potential partners in hopes that they could be the one, only to have the same sort of scenario play out where you become needy, clingy, and perhaps even a little emotionally unstable causing the relationship to plummet?

How to Be Single
For most of our early life, we’re so focused on finding the one, that we forget to actually enjoy our singlehood, enjoying discovering ourselves and the world…

How You Might Be Sabotaging Your New Year’s Resolutions
They seem reasonable, and when face to face with the thing that which you must do but are dreading doing, your reasons, considerations and excuses seem absolutely justifiable. Not only are they justifiable, they seem pertinent and priority before you can get to work...

How to Stop People-Pleasing and Find Happiness Within
Have you been noticing lately that you’re someone who enjoys making other people happy? There’s something so satisfying in doing something good and getting acknowledgement for it. But sometimes we can go overboard and begin a habit of going out of our way to make...

Attunement: the “I just want you to get me” need that is often unmet
For most of my life I’ve been craving for someone to just “get” me. I found I would spend so long justifying my feelings, reactions and behavior when all I really wanted was someone to be on my side; someone to be on the same wavelength. I would seek this...

From Bingeing to Being: The Journey to Becoming Whole
For years it felt as though something was missing in my life. I couldn’t quite pinpoint it as a child, but I knew something didn’t feel right. Growing up with a hard-working, single Dutch mother, I relied on her for everything: food, shelter, clothes on...

30 Life Lessons at 30
Life is full of ups and downs, and in those ups and downs there are many lessons to be had. Some are silly, some are deep, but all of which I live by today. Here are the top lessons I’ve learned from my life. 1. Depression is Your Soul Saying it Needs a Deep Rest....