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Self Worth &Boundaries
Build healthier relationships with yourself and others.
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Strengthen self-trust, confidence and emotional resilience.
Latest Posts
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How to Accept Yourself Without Giving Up on Growth
There is a particular idea about self-acceptance that can feel surprisingly difficult to believe: you can accept yourself as you are and still want to change. At first, these two things can seem contradictory. If you accept yourself, shouldn’t you stop worrying about what needs to be improved? And if you are constantly trying to…
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Why Do I Compare Myself to Others? Understanding the Need to Measure Up
Why do I compare myself to others, even when I know it usually doesn’t make me feel better? You might ask yourself this question after scrolling through social media and suddenly feeling behind in your career, relationships, appearance, or life in general. You might compare yourself to a colleague who seems more successful, a friend…
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Why Does Rejection Feel So Personal? Understanding Why It Hurts
Why does rejection feel so personal, even when you know it shouldn’t? In our previous article, How to Deal with Rejection, we looked at what rejection is and explored some ways to handle it when it happens. But knowing what to do after rejection doesn’t necessarily explain why it can affect us so deeply in…
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How to Deal with Rejection Without Letting It Define You
Learning how to deal with rejection can be difficult, especially when a simple “no” starts sounding like a statement about who you are. Someone doesn’t choose you for a job. Someone you like doesn’t feel the same way. A friendship changes. You don’t get invited. An application is turned down. The reasons can be completely…
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Inner Critic: What Happened Between the Mistake and “I’m the Problem”?
You make a mistake at work, forget something important, miss a deadline, or handle a conversation badly. Your first thought might be straightforward: I handled that badly. Then the thought changes: “I always do this”, “Why am I like this?”, “I’m just not good at these things”. Before you realize it, something you did has…
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How to Accept Yourself Without Needing to Like Everything About Yourself
You probably already know that there are things about yourself you would like to change. Maybe you procrastinate more than you’d like, you avoid difficult conversations, get defensive too quickly, struggle with money, or tend to take on too much and then resent it. Maybe there are parts of your appearance, personality, or past decisions…
