A tongue-in-cheek guide to people who talk a very good game but rarely deliver. We’ve all encountered them. The people who are generous with their words, enthusiastic with their promises and wonderfully convincing when they want to create a particular impression. They tell you how much they love you, how much they care, how important… Read More The Hypocrisy Handbook: What They Say Versus What They Actually Do
The content explores three emotional responses: bitterness, vengeance, and maliciousness, particularly following experiences like betrayal or conflict. Bitterness involves persistent resentment, vengeance focuses on retaliation, while maliciousness aims to harm others. Understanding these distinctions aids in trauma therapy and relationship recovery, as emotions can overlap but serve different purposes in healing.… Read More Bitterness, vengeance and maliciousness: definitions, characteristics and examples
Psychologists distinguish between benign envy and malicious envy. Although both involve wanting something another person has, they lead to very different thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Benign Envy Malicious Envy “I’d like to achieve that too.” “I don’t want them to have it.” Inspires self-improvement. Motivates attempts to reduce another person’s success. Leads to admiration and learning. Leads to… Read More Benign Envy vs Malicious Envy: Understanding the Difference
We have all met people who speak passionately about faith, quote scripture, and present themselves as deeply religious. They pray in public, preach to others, and insist on their moral values. Yet behind closed doors, their actions tell a very different story. This is not an attack on Christianity or any religion. In fact, every… Read More Faith or Performance? When Words and Actions Don’t Match
Kindness is a gift, gratitude is a mirror, and boundaries are armor. Stay generous and compassionate, but know your value — you are not a free resource, you are a human with limits, feelings, and needs. Kindness is a gift, gratitude is a mirror, and boundaries are armor. These three principles form the foundation of… Read More Kindness Is a Gift
It’s been another full, nourishing week with my bestie and family — the kind filled with long, unhurried conversations that stretch late into the evening. We talked about school, teenagers, work, growing up, and the strange passage of time. About responsibilities that multiply, roles that shift, and the quiet weight of experience. And yet, threaded… Read More “What the hell did you ever see in him?”
1. “Please don’t divorce me… let’s sort this out, just you and me” This is an attempt to isolate you— to keep lawyers, courts, or outside support away so he can regain influence over your decisions. When someone doesn’t want “anyone else involved,” it’s because outside people protect you, and they know it. 2. “You don’t need legal protection… Read More What This Letter Really Means (plain, honest interpretation)
Sometimes we reach a point where trying to control everything becomes too heavy.Where pushing, fixing, analysing, and carrying it all alone is no longer possible.And in that moment, something softer begins to whisper: Have faith. Hand it over. Trust something bigger than yourself — whatever that is for you. It doesn’t matter whether your “higher… Read More Surrender
You know how they say “love is blind”? Well in my case, love wasn’t just blind — it was half-cut, stumbling around without its glasses, and should have booked an urgent appointment at Specsavers. Because honestly… how did I end up with him? Shallow. Mean. Ugly inside and out. My friend nailed it in one sentence: “How… Read More Should Have Gone to Specsavers: My Ex in Review
Imagine spending 32 years of your life with someone who demanded honesty, who wore “truth” and “integrity” like a badge of honor, who insisted that trust was the cornerstone of your relationship. You believed them. You shaped your world around that belief. And then one day, the veil drops. You discover the “man of truth”… Read More When Truth Was a Lie All Along
