Category: Personal-Growth and Self-Esteem
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Politeness Without Integrity: The Trap of Passive Aggression
Politeness is not a replacement for integrity. Would you excuse a robber for stealing your purse because he thanked you while stealing it? Passive-aggressive people say please and thank you while mistreating you. Recognizing when someone pairs polite manners with selfish or subtle aggressive behavior is essential for one’s emotional and physical self-protection in relationships.…
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Forgiveness: A Personal Choice for Healing or Protection
Forgiving is a complicated process. For some, it’s a necessary step to achieve emotional healing. For others, attempting forgiveness is emotionally damaging. Whatever the degree of the abuse, neglect, or betrayal one has suffered, whether to forgive or not is a personal decision. Forgiving what has happened to you is not saying “I forgive you”…
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Making Dating Less Stressful and More Enjoyable Will Lessen The Dread Of The Process.
Many people dread the experience of dating. However, there are strategies, techniques, and attitudes that can make the process less tedious and anxiety-producing. Having conversations that match your dating stage helps the experience be more relaxed and less complicated. Changing negative attitudes and behaviours is essential. Dating is social time spent with another person engaging…
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How Poor Fathering Impacts Sons’ Masculinity and Self-Esteem
Weak, uninvolved, or abusive fathering has a profoundly negative affect on a son’s perception of his masculinity, relationship to women, career identity, and self-esteem. Inadequate, insecure fathers compete with their sons instead of helping them. Inadequate fathers engage in conversations that judge, criticize, and discourage their sons. Narcissistic fathers are demanding and inflict rigid expectations.…
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Millennials Push Back Against Racism, Violence, and Decline
Millennials are mistakenly being viewed as apathetic. In truth, they have felt traumatized and powerless during these chaotic times of surging racism, anti-democratic politics, gun violence, and the high cost of living. However, millennials are now talking amongst themselves about how they will reverse what they see as the dangerous decline of their country. With…
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Understanding and Overcoming the Triggers of Social Anxiety
Social anxiety can be paralyzing. Some people suffer from social anxieties due to childhood trauma, low self-esteem, or peer pressure. Social situations can trigger fears of rejection, humiliation, and stress. Shyness also causes anxiety by triggering comparison to others and fear of failure at succeeding at social expectations. Physical symptoms like shaking, sweating, becoming speechless,…
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Recognizing Toxic Masculinity and Its Harm to Relationships
Toxic masculinity is not attractive to normal, healthy women. It’s a no-brainer to most women to stay away from men who show up at racist marches or political rallies dressed up in faux military costumes, waving their fists, carrying guns, and shouting profanities. However, the more subtle forms of toxic masculinity such as domination, intimidation,…
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Overcoming New Year’s Blues with an Attitude Adjustment
The New Year’s blues can hit hard, despite the partying and hopes for a fresh start in the new year. Realizing the losses and disappointments at year’s end causes sadness. An attitude adjustment can ease the pain Societal expectations to spend New Year’s Eve doing something exciting and fantastic can cause intense pressure and stress. …
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How to Cope with Missing Someone After a Relationship Ends
What does missing someone feel like? What does it say about the attachment you had when you miss someone? How to stop missing a friend, family member, or lover if the relationship is over? Missing someone indicates you experienced an emotional attachment that had deep significance for you. We miss people with whom we built…
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Millennials Face Limits but Hold Endless Potential for Change
Millennials admit to exhibiting self-limiting traits that define their generation. They identify too many choices, too many distractions, difficulty with commitment, self-absorption, and being unfocused as common obstacles to their success and happiness. However, their potential to improve what’s wrong in the world is limitless. They just have to commit to caring and getting involved.…