Learn to Hold Your Boundaries with Healthy Selfishness

Learn to Hold Your Boundaries with Healthy Selfishness

You’ve tried to draw a boundary with your partner, boss or best friend, but they call you selfish, self-absorbed or even narcissistic! How could dare you prioritize yourself over what they want? In my new book, Boundaries Made Easy (which is dropping in just a couple...
What to Do if Your Partner is Friends with Past Partners or Hookups

What to Do if Your Partner is Friends with Past Partners or Hookups

Your current partner is friends with one or more of their past partners or hookups, and you don’t like it. You’ve told them you’re uncomfortable, but they say they’re just friends and you’re overreacting. Does it mean you have to break up? Should you push the issue or...
How to Keep Your Boundaries Around the Holidays

How to Keep Your Boundaries Around the Holidays

How do you not let your family drive you crazy this holiday season? Boundaries. How can you find peace even though there’s so much going on during November and December? Boundaries. How can you enter the new year feeling refreshed and energized? Boundaries once again!...
How Do You Know When a Relationship Is Over?

How Do You Know When a Relationship Is Over?

Have you been thinking it’s time to call it quits in your relationship, but maybe you’re wondering if you’re quitting too soon or wanting to leave for the wrong reasons? It can be hard to know when a relationship “should be” over. Today I’ll be sharing the top five...
What You Need to Know About Defense Mechanisms

What You Need to Know About Defense Mechanisms

Defense mechanisms are your brain’s (mostly unconscious) way of avoiding conflict, anxiety or upset. Although they get a bad rap, defense mechanisms are a necessary part of your psychology, and some are even considered healthy! Today, you’ll gain some self-awareness...
What to Do When You Can’t Get Through to Them

What to Do When You Can’t Get Through to Them

Do you have that person in your life who, no matter what you do, you can’t seem to get through to them or get them to listen or engage in a healthy conversation about issues you’re experiencing in the relationship? You try to say how you’re feeling, but they flip it...

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