Building healthy relationships when crazy is no longer normal. Posted Jul 24, 2019 When we grow up in emotionally chaotic households, we face challenges in establishing healthy adult relationships. When chaos is the norm, we get accustomed to living with what feels bad and scary. We learn to silence our experience because it feels too […]
Beware: People-Pleasing Behaviors Can Backfire
Learn to say no and put yourself first. Posted Aug 02, 2019 Source: Shutterstock In today’s high-tech world, we seem to have an alarming obsession and cultural proclivity to be liked and to please others, arguably more than ever before. In fact, the prevalence of “people-pleasing” behavioral issues among my clients is rampant and takes […]
People Are Not Toxic, but They Do Behave Badly | Psychology Today
“Toxic” is used to characterize anything and everything these days. Why? As Joanna Williams of Spiked says, it’s not a proposition, an argument, or a description. When you label someone as toxic, you are characterizing them in a negative way, giving yourself permission to dismiss, avoid, criticize, etc. “It Is not an argument; it is a flashing […]
