Recent Posts
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On the Power of Grief: When Feeling Pain Is Healing
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but one of the phases I went through in my “healing”—God, I hate this word—journey, was acting tough. But not merely acting tough. Finding that it’s useful to have this sort of “don’t fuck with me” demeanour, and in a twisted way, it…
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When you’ve been criticized your whole life, even feedback can feel like an attack
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One of the ways growing up in an unsupportive or invalidating environment affects us is that we can become very sensitive to criticism. We get so accustomed to people having a poor impression of us that we almost always predict others will have a negative opinion of us too. When…
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The things we do out of loneliness
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I think one of the most important skills one can develop is critical thinking and truth-seeking. We are often bombarded with thousands of messages about what is and is not normal, what is and is not healthy, how women are, how men are, and what to expect from others. And…