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Breakup Joins Grief with Withdrawal: Here’s How To Move Beyond
A breakup joins two of life’s most challenging experiences: paralyzing grief and the overwhelming physical and emotional withdrawal from an addiction.
Investing in Feeling Bad Keeps You From Feeling Good
Are you interested in someone? Is he or she interested in you? Maybe—but it’s a lot easier to assume not, because if you lower your expectations, there’s much less far to fall.
Rebuilding Self-Esteem After a Cycle of Rejection
What did you learn to expect in your early life or from previous relationships? The answer can affect how you feel about yourself now.
Sex as a Tool of Pursuit
Remember back to your first relationships: Was one person the pursuer and the other the pursued? Amid this insecurity, instead of participating equally in the creation of a relationship, one person may use the tools at their disposal in the attempt to engage their partner in emotional reciprocity. One of these tools is sex.
Does Relationship Insecurity Create Passion?
Would he betray you? Is she flirting? Maybe you have reason to be suspicious, but here’s another explanation: Many of us create feelings of insecurity in our relationships as a way to get back the passion we once felt.
Everything You Do is Meant to be Self-Preserving
Do you feel there are things best kept to yourself, things that aren’t fit for the public eye – things you’re deeply ashamed of? Understand that at one point these patterns were meant to be self-preserving.
How to Stop Chasing Your Idealized Self
Imagine you're at home, it’s quiet, and you’re by yourself. What do you feel in that moment? Do you feel comfortable in your own skin – calm in the eye of the storm that is your day? Or, like many people, do you feel like you should be doing something? You should be...
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Nearly every Red state is bringing anyone who has survived something as horrific as rape to their knees in despair.
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Why Donald J. Trump is Unfit to be President
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The psychiatric problems we saw in 2017 are only getting worse
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