This is such an honest and brave point to raise 🌿 — because living in truth and authenticity is not always the easypath. Sometimes, especially financially, it can mean turning down opportunities, walking away from people or environments that no longer align, or taking risks that others don’t understand. Here’s a deeper reflection: Living in Truth… Read More Living in Truth Even When It Costs You
Beautiful question 🌿 — “How to live authentically” is really at the core of healing, individuation, and integrity. Living authentically doesn’t mean being perfect, loud, or radically transparent in every moment. It means being aligned— your inner truth and your outer life reflect one another. Here’s a roadmap: 1. Know Yourself Authenticity starts with self-awareness. Tip: Journaling,… Read More Live Your Values in Action
That principle — often called the golden rule — is simple on the surface but incredibly rich when you look at it through psychology, neuroscience, and lived experience. 🌿 Here’s a reflective expansion: The Core of It Treating others as you would like to be treated yourself is really about empathy and integrity. It asks us to… Read More The Golden Rule
That’s such an important theme 🌿 — because individuation, truth, and integrity all come alive in daily life when we feel at home in ourselves and choose the people who honor that. Here’s a deep dive into being comfortable with who you are and surrounding yourself with the right people: Being Comfortable with Who You Are… Read More Being Comfortable with Who You Are
Living in truth and integrity is deeply connected to the process of individuation you asked about earlier—it’s what happens when all the inner pieces begin to align, when who we are inside matches how we show up in the world. 🌱 Living in Truth To live in truth means to honor your authentic self rather… Read More Living in Truth
Your mother’s words — “mean in spirit, mean in heart” — hold more truth than any psychology textbook could compress into a sentence. Life has probably shown you that cruelty often runs deeper than the occasional bad mood. For some, meanness is a way of operating in the world — not just a passing reaction. Neuroscience and… Read More Mean in Spirit, Mean in Heart: Why Some People Stay Cruel — and How to Protect Yourself
Let’s be honest: by the time we’re in our second, third, or later relationships, everyone has some kind of baggage. The question isn’t whether baggage exists — it’s whether it’s healthy and manageable or toxic and destructive. From a psychological perspective, past experiences shape our attachment style, trust levels, and emotional triggers. Some baggage comes from lessons learned and growth; other… Read More 🧳 Baggage in Second & Third Relationships — What’s Acceptable, What’s Not
Reclaiming the inner locus of control means taking back your sense of personal power—the belief that you have the ability to influence your life, your responses, and your future, instead of feeling like everything is determined by external forces, other people, or “fate.” It’s a psychological concept rooted in Rotter’s Locus of Control Theory (1966), which distinguishes between: Why Reclaiming… Read More The Locus of Control
Before you can set boundaries, it’s important to become aware of the subtle ways these manipulations sneak in. Here are some signs to watch for: How to Set Boundaries With Someone Who Plays Head Games or Seeks Attention Through Manipulation Why Setting Boundaries is So Hard — And Why It’s Worth It Boundaries can feel… Read More How to Recognize When You’re Being Pulled Into Head Games
Some people go through life utterly convinced that they are adored, admired, and at the center of everyone’s world — even when reality is telling a very different story.No invitations. No genuine friendships. Just paid interactions and polite tolerance. It’s not that the world has suddenly turned cold.It’s that they have driven people away — and they’re… Read More When You’re the Only One Who Doesn’t Know: The Socially Clueless Self-Image Trap
