How to Reparent Yourself and Love Your Wounded Inner Child
Reparenting is a technique that therapists use to heal deep, psychological wounds, and mental illnesses. It is when the therapist takes on the role of a loving and trustworthy parent so that the wounded inner child residing in our subconscious feels safe to express...
How to Handle a Person with a Victim Mentality
Are you in a relationship with someone who has a victim mentality? Is there someone in your family who is constantly blaming others, fate, or circumstances for their misfortune? Or perhaps you have friends who can’t stop complaining and venting about their life...
How to Put Yourself First Without Feeling Guilty and Selfish
Is it selfish to put yourself first? Do you often put yourself last because you feel guilty? Do you find it difficult to enjoy yourself without first taking care of other people’s needs? When we are babies, we put ourselves first. Babies need love and affection....
How to Stop Being a People-Pleaser
Are you a people-pleaser? Do you say “yes” when you actually want to say “no”? When someone asks you to do something, do you agree immediately? Do you feel responsible for what other people feel and constantly worried about hurting them? Or do...
How to Overcome Your Fear of Abandonment
Do you have abandonment issues? Are you afraid that the people you love will leave you? Is your fear of abandonment an ongoing issue for you and your relationship? Do you find yourself becoming needy or even angry when someone you care about shows signs of separation?...
How to Break Codependency Habits and Stop Being Codependent
Many of us have codependent tendencies. Early in our childhood, we are taught to put other people’s needs above our own. We learn that to receive love, we need to do what we are told and give excessively. As adults, we continue to display these people-pleasing...
Do You Need to Be Needed? (And Other Signs of Codependency)
Being needed makes us feel good. It makes us feel important, valued, and wanted by other people. It increases our sense of worth and self-esteem. But when is our need to feel needed becomes too much? When The Need to Be Needed Turns Unhealthy As humans, we all have...
How to Feel Worthy and Know Your Worth in a Love Relationship
How do you know your worth in a relationship? What is self-worth based on? And exactly how worthy are you? Imagine you are shopping in a departmental store now. You see something you really like… let’s say a shirt, a dress, or a pair of shoes. You look at...
How Can Mindfulness Help You Love Yourself More?
How do mindfulness and self-love work together? Why mindfulness is necessary for your self-love and self-compassion journey? And what mindfulness is and isn’t? There was once my friend asked me what I’m writing about and I said: Self-compassion. She then...Struggling with Your Physical Appearance or Illness?
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