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Identifying the origins of our inner critic allows us to challenge negative thoughts. Introjection is often the source of negative self-talk. When understood, the voice often quiets. A simple CBT tool can help you dispute internal "fake news." Sarah, a very successful startup co-founder, was burned out. When she came...

How to Challenge Your Inner Critic—and Win

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What comes to mind when you think of the word "gaslighting?" Perhaps you picture a character from a movie or TV show, like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho or Norma Bates in Psycho. While gaslighting is often depicted in entertainment, it’s not always easy to identify in real life.

5 Common Gaslighting Phrases People Use to Manipulate Others

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Understanding the Reasons Why Women Lose Respect for Men. Respect forms the backbone of any healthy relationship. When it starts to wane, the entire relationship can suffer. In a recent article, I wrote about what makes men lose respect for women. While we can say that these behaviors would cause someone of any gender to lose respect, the differences are interesting.

What Makes a Woman Lose Respect for a Man?

We’ve all encountered a toxic person. After engaging in either short or long-term relationships with such individuals, the outcome is often the same: a great deal of suffering and tears. The scars left by these people are rooted in their subtlety to twist situations, making it easy for them to cause you to doubt yourself during face-to-face interactions.

These Are The Common Phrases Toxic People Say

Vulnerable and honest exchanges lead to understanding each other's perspectives and healing emotional wounds. Encouraging a legacy of understanding and empathy will permeate all family dynamics. Healing wounds helps bring an individual a sense of peace as well as improved relationships. The following are examples from my parent coaching practice....

3 Compelling Reasons to Make Amends With Your Adult Child

These days, we could do with all the mental strength we can muster. Mental strength is the ability to productively regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, even in the face of adversity. And adversity is in no short supply. If you want to overcome more challenges, achieve more success, experience more happiness and less stress — it takes mental strength.

If you always do these 8 things, you’re mentally stronger than most

Many relationships reach a tipping point after years of built up resentments and unsolved problems. Like physical death, the death of a relationship moves through several stages. The key to prevention is regularly taking stock of the relationship and tackling problems as they arise. Many couples who show up for...

7 Stages in the Death of a Relationship

A midlife crisis typically refers to a period of emotional turmoil and self-doubt that people experience during middle age, often between 35 and 55. It stems from the realization that one's life may be halfway over, leading to existential questions about achievements, purpose, and the future.

Understanding the Telltale Signs of Midlife Crisis in Men

The neurobiology of the brain changes during pregnancy. Hormonal influences further affect how a woman feels both psychologically and physically. This is the 5th post in a series. In her book, Matresence, Lucy Jones says that pregnancy is a metamorphosis. She compares the woman's identity and her mind to a...

The Transition to Motherhood

Although the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator test has come under scrutiny over the years, psychologists who have actually looked more critically into the criticism conclude that it is not any less reliable or valid than any other personality test. The rarest personality type is INFJ (standing for Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging) and is estimated to make up 1-2% of the population. Here are five signs you’re an INFJ, the rarest and most dangerous personality type.

5 Signs You’re An INFJ (The Rarest, Most Dangerous Myers-Briggs Personality Type)

Is there a foolproof method to tell when someone is lying? The answer is yes. Whether in private life or at work, it’s important to understand if the person in front of us is telling lies or being sincere. To detect when someone is lying, we can rely on...

6 Signs to Understand When Someone Is Lying

Divorce can be a life-altering event that brings significant emotional and financial changes. For men, the impact of divorce can be particularly profound, affecting various aspects of their lives. In this article, we will explore the five things men lose the most after divorce and provide insights on how to cope with these losses.

5 things men lose the most after divorce

Cloaking occurs when someone has ghosted you and then proceeds to block you on all communications channels. Ghosters may cloak themselves to avoid seeing, hearing, or dealing with any comments or questions from you. Cloaking can help them avoid guilt, hassle, and further detection and make you look like the...

'Cloaking' Takes Ghosting to a Whole New Level

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

Inside: Read overthinker quotes and the causes of overthinking to help you put a stop to it and more fully enjoy your life. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of thoughts. From pondering the perfect response in a conversation to meticulously...

35 Overthinker Quotes to Help You Stop Overthinking and Start Living

Estrangement might protect some individuals from an abusive person. But is someone else behind that decision?. Hypnosis, especially when done to recover "lost" memories, is potentially dangerous in the wrong hands. Beware of anyone whoadvises cutting off ties with family members who have been supportive and loving. If someone tells...

Family Estrangement: Undue Influence Is Often a Factor

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7 Phrases to Never, Ever Use With Someone Who's Emotionally Immature, According to Psychologists

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Welcome to a new week with new beginnings and endings, potentials and continuations. Our weekly horoscope includes vast shifts and movement in the cosmos, which translate to vast shifts and movements within our perspectives, beliefs, and ideas. There is deep wisdom available and, when we allow it to induce self-reclamation and self-empowerment, deep alchemy as well.

Your Weekly Horoscope for July 21-27: Reclaiming Your Truest Self

Patients prescribed benzos become addicted and, if their doctor retires, may not find anyone new to take over. When a patient goes without medication, a severely traumatizing withdrawal syndrome may ensue. Systemic issues make it burdensome to prescribe benzos, and patients may be suspected of drug seeking. Late last week,...

Acute Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: A Public Health Crisis

Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, once worked closely with Sigmund Freud before their differing views led to a professional split. While Freud’s work remains more widely known, Jung's theories have profoundly influenced fields like psychiatry, anthropology, literature, and philosophy.

7 Quotes From Carl Jung That Can Elevate Your Life Perspective

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We All Feel Inauthentic at Times

“For there is nothing to lay hold of. I am made and remade continually. Different. people draw different words from me.” (Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931,...

We All Feel Inauthentic at Times

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