What Are Your Core Beliefs and Why Are They So Important to Uncover?
When you first dig up the festering mess of your core beliefs from the depths of your being you either fall to your knees in agonized recognition, or snicker in absolute disbelief. The truth is that...
View ArticleHow to Change Your Core Beliefs in 9 Steps
Our core beliefs are at the very center of who we are, what we believe about ourselves, what we think of others and how we feel about life as a whole. They determine how connected we feel with other...
View Article6 Examples of Psychological Projection We All Commit
I tend to make assumptions a lot, about everything and everyone. While I have mostly learned the hard way that most people don’t actually think, feel and reason the same way I do, I realized long ago...
View Article8 Tried and Tested Ways of Overcoming Social Anxiety
Suffering from social anxiety is like tiptoeing along the edge of a very steep cliff. The slightest look, the subtlest tone of voice, the smallest gesture that anyone does can set you off into a tirade...
View Article6 Telltale Signs of the Perfectionist Personality
Once upon a time it used to take me up to 12 hours of agonized obsession to produce one article worthy of being published. I would sit at my desk, hunched over my notebook staring into the blank Word...
View ArticleThe Martyr Complex Checklist: Signs, Symptoms, Examples
Having a martyr complex is like having a get out of jail free card. It allows you to evade guilt and shame, bypass self-responsibility, and perhaps most importantly (and tragically), it allows you to...
View Article8 Signs You Have the All-Knowing Disease
Why are we born? Where do we go when we die? Do we choose our lives here on earth? Who was I in a past life? How can I know what my true life meaning is? Should I contact a psychic medium? Can I even...
View ArticleAutotelics: Who Are They? And Why You Might Be One
Money, respect and prestige are common motivators in our society, but there's a type of personality out there that isn't motivated by any of these factors. These people are know as the "Autotelics."...
View ArticleSexual Repression, Erotic Dreams and the Shadow Self
Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex. Hot sex, bad sex, loving sex, perverted sex, spiritual sex, sexy sex … let’s just put that word out there shall we? Let’s rip away the proverbial band-aid from a topic that is...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Sexual Repression
When was the last time you experienced a fierce throb burn in your loins and travel through your body like electricity? When did you last experience intense desire and passion consume you like...
View Article6 Ways Individuation Inspires You to Find Wholeness
Tell me what you know of that is not inside the soul? Take a pitcher full of water and set it down on the water — now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name ... If you want...
View Article7 Inner Archetype Examples That Cripple Your Confidence and Self-Respect
The absence of self-love lies at the very core of every form of anxiety, depression, loneliness and emptiness that we feel as a species. In fact, low self-esteem is such a pandemic problem, that we get...
View ArticleWhy Therapy Doesn’t Work For You
Working in my garden a few months ago, I was taught the most powerful lesson in healing our Soul wounds. We have quite a large backyard with poor soil due to the previous owner's misuse of it. Since...
View ArticleAnger Issues: How to Understand, Channel and Transform Your Passion
Don't try to hide inside anger, radiance that cannot be hidden. ~ Rumi We've all at some time in our lives felt anger ignite within us with a fiery intensity. This feeling surges through our veins in...
View ArticleHow to Practice Mindful Self-Compassion: 6 Life-Changing Steps
Imagine you are in a theater watching a movie. It’s a suspense thriller. You have attached emotionally to the main character. You have seen the struggles the character has been through. You identify...
View ArticlePeople-Pleasing: The Hidden Dangers of Always Being “Too Nice”
You feel the pressure throb in your veins. A lump rises in your throat as your colleagues watch you closely. They are expecting an answer. They are expecting you to comply. Every fibre of your being...
View Article6 Telltale Signs of the Perfectionist Personality
Once upon a time it used to take me up to 12 hours of agonized obsession to produce one article worthy of being published. I would sit at my desk, hunched over my notebook staring into the blank Word...
View ArticleQ&A: Is Having Trust Issues a Bad Thing?
One of our readers from Indonesia called Iqbal has asked: Is it healthy living with trust issues? Is having a trust issue a bad thing? He goes on to explain: Since I was in high school I haven’t been...
View Article4 Unusual Reasons Why Procrastinating is Good For You
Procrastinating in this day and age is seen as a sign of aimlessness, poor mental acuity, and at worst complete failure as a human being. In our go-go-go, hyper-accelerated working culture and...
View ArticleChronic Boredom: 6 Ways to Use Existential Fatigue to Your Advantage
Most people are already dead. Their minds are constantly preoccupied in past thoughts and resentments, and future worries and plans. We go about our days fully absorbed in any thought, recollection or...
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