How to handle some common reactions to boundaries, like pushback, testing, defensiveness, rationalising/questioning and silent treatment.
Do you feel overworked and underpaid? Maybe you feel that your good nature is taken advantage of? Or you are fed up of always being the one who stays late. It may be that you have a problem with your boundaries at work.
Ever been told that you are ‘too nice’? Read on for what people-pleasing is, 12 signs you are a people-pleaser. And how to stop!
What is anxiety? What can you do to ease it when it strikes? And what can you do to tackle the root causes? Here are some of the valuable insights of our community and a few ideas of my own too.
What are some of the things that couples often don’t talk about before they get married, but it would be a great idea if they did?
And perhaps even more relevant given that just under half of marriages end in divorce, what are the most common reasons given for divorce that can inform what it would be helpful to discuss before you even get married?
A lack of trust in yourself can be easy to cover up and ignore for a while. But we can all think of people, maybe ourselves, who are great at what they do, but are riddled with doubts and self-criticism.
If we don’t trust ourselves, we don’t have that firm foundation to build on. When we have built that foundation, we can make a mistake or hear criticism and our confidence remains intact.
That foundation to confidence is trusting in ourselves. So how do we do that?
