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Kindness and Mental Health – Do You Need to Be Nice?
by Andrea Blundell “Kindness is a gift everyone can affordâ€?. “Love and kindness are never wastedâ€?. We hear kindness quotes so often, we might not take them seriously. But have we underrated the power of kindness? Psychology seems to think so. A growing body of research now recognises a connection between kindness and mental health. … [Read Entire Story]
Healthy Dating Rules in a Pandemic – 10 Things to NOT to Let Slide
by Andrea Blundell Covid-19 has changed the landscape for singles, and might keep dating different for some time. Throw in boredom and lockdown loneliness, and it’s an easy environment to let healthy dating rules slide. Dating Rules To Keep Dating is like math. A healthy start leads to a lasting, good relationship. An unhealthy start full … [Read Entire Story]
Standards and Boundaries
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Personal Accountability – Why You Need More of It, Now
Often feel a letdown, no matter how hard you try? Or has someone insinuated you need to ‘grow up’ a bit? Sounds like it’s time for some personal accountability. What is personal accountability? Relax. Personal accountability isn’t about being organised all the time, perfect, or an overachiever. It simply means you choose to take responsibility … [Read Entire Story]
Everyone Else’s Fault? How to Stop Projecting Feelings Onto Others
What is projection anyway? You don’t want to go out for the evening, but convince yourself the other party actually doesn’t find you interesting and that’s why you’re cancelling. You are incredibly attracted to a colleague, but get angry at them for flirting with you. In a fight with your sister you stay very calm, pointing … [Read Entire Story]
Why We Hurt the Ones We Love
It can sometime seem that the more we love a partner or friend, the more we hurt them. What makes this so often the case? 1. You trust them. When we become truly close to someone, we trust them enough we relax. Social conventions drop, and we are more of ourselves around them. Of course … [Read Entire Story]
Is Interdependency What Can Save Your Relationship?
What is interdependency? In psychology, interdependency is a way of relating that involves both parties being able to depend on each other in an egalitarian, non-demanding way. Understanding the different forms of dependency To understand interdependency, it can first help to examine the other ‘dependencies’ you might be more familiar with. Dependency is when you entirely rely … [Read Entire Story]
Doubt in Relationships – Useful or Toxic?
Doubt in relationships – a sudden fear or uncertainty about the person we are with – is inevitable and not necessarily a bad sign. Doubts can feel a shock as they tend to first surface when the high of falling in love is infiltrated by the truth that you are not so entirely simpatico with … [Read Entire Story]
The Dangers of Counterdependency – When You Never Need Anyone
What is counterdependency? Codependency, the habit of gaining your self worth from pleasing others, is something most people know of nowadays. But it’s lesser known opposite, called counterdependency, can be just as much of a problem and is often related to codependency. In fact sometimes a person will switch from one extreme to the other in … [Read Entire Story]
Why We Put the Blame On Others – and the Real Cost We Pay
By Andrea Blundell Blaming – the fine art of making others responsible for all the difficult things that happen to us – is something our modern society seems to support as perfectly acceptable. Reality TV shows force feed us scenes of one character blaming another, and newspapers are awash with stories about how all of society’s … [Read Entire Story]
10 Excuses That Hide Emotionally Abusive Relationships
Emotional abuse (also called psychological abuse or mental abuse) is any form of non-physical abuse designed to cause damage to another person’s mindset and erode their sense of wellbeing. It most often involves someone imposing their power over you in a way that attacks your sense of confidence and makes you depend on them, whether … [Read Entire Story]
Impossible Compassion: Utilizing Directed Compassion to Cure Disease, Save the Environment, Transform Relationships… and Do All Sorts of Other Good Things for Ourselves and Everyone Else
How do we end suffering in our own life and on the planet? How do we bring about seemingly impossible outcomes such as miraculously healing our self from a fatal disease, saving the environment or ending violence and war? In his second book, Edward Mannix takes on our assumptions about what is possible and impossible [More About This Book]
Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships
We are all involved in relationships. Indeed, we are all in relationship with everything and everyone, all of the time. We have a relationship with ourselves, with our family, with our environment, with our work, with each other. Everything that we know and experience about ourselves, we understand within the context created by our relationships.For [More About This Book]
7 Ways to Beat the Boredom Blues
What challenges are you currently stressing over? Is it financial problems, weight issues, depression, or a lack of energy? Could it be self-esteem or relationship problems? Those are truly legitimate concerns, but did you ever consider that many of those issues may actually be symptoms of a less obvious or hidden problem? What hidden problem? … [Read Entire Story]
Words of Wisdom from a Human Being…Who Happens to be Homeless
Related posts: The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 1): George Carlin The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 2): Bill Hicks Liberating Message To The Masses: When I Woke Up! The Wise Lessons of Fatherhood: Baby J is 1 Year Old Today! A Philosopher As Parent (Part 2) – Ten Commandments to Parenting Wisely [Read Entire Story]
The Answer is in Your Handwriting!: Your Relationships – Are They Right for You?
In this, Volume II of Dena Blatt’s Handwriting series, the author analyzes over a hundred handwriting samples from men and women asking the age-old question: “Is my partner right for me, and if not, what should I do about it?” A certified graphoanalyst (handwriting expert) since 1974 and “Dear Dena” advice columnist in True Blue [More About This Book]
Signature for Success: How to Analyze Handwriting and Improve Your Career, Your Relationships, and Your Life
Signatures and handwriting reveal more than we think or even intend. While many perceive Bill Gates as arrogant, his handwriting shows him to be determined, self-confident, and impatient, expected others to live up to his standards. And while Barbara Walters comes across as outgoing, the slant of her handwriting indicates she compensates for her basic [More About This Book]
Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
The renowned classic and New York Times bestseller Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel—and certainly our anger is no exception. “Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,” writes Dr. Harriet Lerner in her [More About This Book]
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
The #1 New York Times smash bestseller Revised and expanded with new material. With over two million copies sold, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man has become a bestseller around the world. In conjunction with its second movie sequel to be released this summer, Steve Harvey has updated his classic with new advice [More About This Book]
