Articles on self-awareness, resilience, emotional intelligence, and intentional growth. For people who want to understand themselves better and build more fulfilling lives.
Most of us know what it feels like to get defensive. Someone says something about us or about our work, we feel the sting, and we push back before we…
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From the outside, your life looks settled. The career is established, the kids are older or gone, the milestones are checked off. And yet somewhere in your forties or fifties,…
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You took the new job, or left the old one, or finally made the leap you spent years talking yourself into. On paper, it was the right move. So why…
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Anticipatory rejection is the habit of rejecting yourself before anyone else gets the chance to. You decline the invitation before it can be withdrawn. You stay quiet in the meeting…
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You’re intelligent. People have told you that your whole life. But somewhere between the intelligence and the execution, things keep falling apart. Deadlines get missed. Conversations drift. You start twelve…
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The Person Behind the Toxicity Before we talk about how to deal with toxic people, it is worth understanding what you are actually dealing with. Toxic people are often kind…
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Why Rejection and Failure Hit So Hard Rejection and failure activate some of the oldest wiring in the human brain. Social rejection, in particular, registers in many of the same…
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Codependency is one of those words that gets thrown around loosely, but the actual experience of it is anything but casual. At its core, codependency is a pattern where your…
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If you are reading this, you are probably already aware that something in your life has crossed from occasional to compulsive, from recreational to required. Maybe someone you care about…
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The Secret Most Successful People Keep You got the promotion, finished the degree, landed the client, or built the thing everyone said could not be built. By any external measure,…
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