Category: Personal Growth
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150+ Examples to avoid dating below your standards
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If you’re dating below your standards, you are implying someone else is responsible for your [happiness, fulfillment, expectations, worth, self-respect]. You get the idea, hopefully. That’s why your dating standards DO matter. Yet we’ve ALL done it. I’ve done it. Call it the having kissed a few toads before knowing what it means to kiss…
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Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser
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Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser. There’s a slightly nasty, yet logical part of me that thinks we do this because we are constantly told we are imperfectly perfect, and to focus on our positive qualities. So we start looking for that same sense of perfection in others – meaning,…
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30 Self Love Vows To Make In The New Year
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These are vows you should not only make but continue to keep. These are vows not only for yourself but for your relationships. And regardless of how others make it seem, self-love is not selfish. It is not arrogant, greedy, uncompassionate or egotistical. It is, however, threatening to those who lack it and who thrive…
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How To Stop Being Defensive [When You Feel Under Attack]
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Defensiveness – it’s the gut reaction to defend yourself when you feel someone has said or done something unfairly or negatively to you. This is instinctive – it’s biological – that when you feel attacked you will either shut down, run away and hide or retaliate to protect yourself. You know all too well what that feels like. The blood…
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4 Signs of gaslighting in relationships – hello, it’s coming from you!
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Since gaslighting is a control tactic through manipulation, it’s almost a guarantee you have been gaslit at some point in your life – even thanks to politics, specialists, marketing, corporations, culture and social media. Gaslighting in relationships is no exception either. But while we’re pretty hyper-focused on the things in which happen to us, are…
