Tag: self help

  • An Open Letter To My Teenage Self About Love + Boys

    An Open Letter To My Teenage Self About Love + Boys

    Hello to the innocent, closet-weird, shy girl of the early 2000s. You’re 30 now, and I have yet to actually take the time to let you in on my secrets on Love and teenage boys as you enter that magical phase of your life. You’ll probably roll your eyes at me (your future husband LOVES…

  • Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser

    Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser

    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,…

  • How to stop being defensive when you feel under attack

    How to stop being defensive when you feel under attack

    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…

  • 7 Things That Are Holding You Back In Life [Let Them Go!]

    7 Things That Are Holding You Back In Life [Let Them Go!]

    Every single one of us in life goes through times of imposition. If you didn’t go through struggles you would never learn how to overcome them. Besides, it’s these rough periods in life that help you understand their significance and what you care about the most. But I think it’s fair to admit that we…

  • 6 Qualities of happy couples that are undervalued today

    6 Qualities of happy couples that are undervalued today

    I recently read on the grapevine of the interwebs that friendship is detrimental to marriage. Seriously, what a load of crock. I sat anxiously at my desk coming up with as many reasons WHY friendship is part of what MAKES my husband and I thrive. Please, someone, please tell me how partnership is what solely drives…