Flaws get a bad reputation and unnecessarily so. What we perceive as imperfections often hold us back from believing in ourselves. When we over focus on what we think are flaws, we end up believing that we are undeserving, weak and feel bad about ourselves. You might end up spending excessive amounts of money and…
Month: July 2019
8 Ways To Handle A Toxic Family Member
Many of us can relate to having a family member that drives us crazy and is in many cases very toxic to our lives. Sometimes you don’t even realize how toxic a family member is to your life, because this is your family. You were probably raised by this person or spent the majority of…
12 Actions To Avoid To Live a Life Free of Regret
One of my biggest fears in life is having regret. I am unable to tell you if you will live a life free of regret, but there are actions you can avoid to ensure that you don’t have regrets in the future. 1. Never taking the time to know yourself. A few years ago I…
9 Ways To Protect Yourself Against Emotional Manipulation
Emotional manipulation can happen to anyone, in any circumstance and at any age. When I was younger, I felt like I could easily protect myself against emotional manipulation. Seeing when other people were emotionally manipulated seemed pretty easy to identify so I felt like I could easily spot emotionally manipulative people within my own life….
6 Ways To Show Compassion To The World
We all have the capability to be compassionate towards other people, animals and the world around us. Everybody has a limitless supply of compassion. Personally I don’t quite agree with the statement that you have to pick a side of compassion. For instance, some people already give to people and feel that they don’t have…
12 Reasons You Attract Toxic People
Recently I’ve been reflecting on many of my past interactions with people. I feel like there were a significant amount of years where the majority of my friends were toxic in my life. I had attachments to unhealthy relationships in my life and felt pretty drained as a result. As a result, I had this…
8 Tips For When You Feel Let Down
Recently I was having a discussion with a friend who is going through a pretty traumatic experience in his life. One of his best friends has continually let him down, causing him to reconsider the importance of that friendship and feeling very disappointed at the actions of his best friend. These conversations has made me…
23 Ways To Deal With Loneliness
All of us have experienced that feeling of loneliness at some point in our lives. It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of friends or no friends, or if you are surrounded by family or can go a whole day without seeing anybody. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, widowed, married, in a…
How To Move Past Failure
Failure is something that is an inevitable part of life. Parts of growth and moving forward involve failure. All of us have a list of failures that have started probably from early childhood whether that was your first attempts at learning to walk, speak a language or make friends or all of the above. But…
10 Things To Remember When Things Don’t Go As Planned
Sometimes life goes unplanned. You try your hardest to take control and make life look the way you want it to, but things happen or don’t happen. You might feel like you are stuck in the same pattern. Or you might feel stuck in a toxic relationship. Or maybe you have been working hard to…