It's easy to put people in boxes, but at what cost to your health?
What Little Box Are You Living In?
Have you ever noticed that we have a tendency to put people in little boxes, as if that is all there is to them? These are the labels that we quickly spout off when someone asks us something like, “What is Susan like?” More a label than a description, these boxes are a one dimensional view of a person, as if that were our nature. It reminds me of a old song by Malvina Reynolds..
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Is the fear of hurting someone keeping you from ending your relationship?
"How do I end a relationship without hurting someone's feelings?" Whether it's a romantic relationship or a friendship, ending it gracefully is generally a challenge.
Find out why you're still thinking about the past and learn how to take the next step.
One of the hardest stages in the relationship cycle is moving on. Many of us ask the question, "Why am I still thinking about my ex?" We've all suffered through nights when we couldn't sleep because thoughts about the ex just wouldn't quit. That's normal. Here are 4 reasons why we continue to think about the past:
1. Lack of closure.
Does the economy have you down? Feeling overwhelmed and over worked? 5 minutes of meditation helps!
According to a recent report by the World Economic Forum, poor job security, increased workload, and a lingering recession are leading causes of job burnout and stress. All of us have suffered job burnout from time to time, but the conditions are more severe and widespread now. There is a deeper sense of exhaustion, cynicism and despondency.
Feeling alone, empty, anxious, depressed, hurt, angry, jealous, sad, fearful, guilty or shamed?
The Encarta® World English Dictionary defines “abandon” as: “to leave somebody or something behind for others to look after, especially somebody or something meant to be a personal responsibility.”
As adults, our own wellbeing is our personal responsibility.
Do you abandon yourself, making others responsible for you, and then feel abandoned by others when they leave you or don’t take responsibility for you?
It feels like gender role-reversal for one woman who wants her dates to go home after sex.
A new phenomenon has come to town and entered the bedroom of one of my clients. One that is causing her to feel guilty. One that goes against her beliefs around relationships and feels to her like gender role-reversal: she doesn't want to spend the night—or all sorts of extra time—with the new guy she's seeing. She'd rather restrict their couple time to three or four hours during the evening, hang out or go out, followed by sex. But then have them call it a night.
Advice on dealing with a boyfriend who gives you the sexual guilt-trip.
Ladies, know that you don’t “owe” your boyfriend, or any man, anything when it comes to sex, whether it be giving him your virginity, enacting out a fantasy of his, or doing anything else he may request in bed. While I do encourage you to try new things with your guy when you’re comfortable and ready, you have a right to say no to any act you don’t want to perform. Period. A real man will respect that.
A new survey suggests that atheists and agnostics have better sex than religious people.
Religion might offer scores of personal benefits, but it looks like a great sex life isn't one of them. According to psychologist Darrel Ray from the University of Kansas, religious people suffer intense guilt during and after intercourse. Those devoted to their religion experienced regret after climaxing. Atheists and agnostics, on the other hand, boasted satisfying sex lives.
How to transform the pain and suffering into happiness and delight
How to transform the pain and suffering into happiness and delight
Just recently I’ve conducted a workshop during which we have been exploring aspects of personal alchemy. We’ve experimented with ways to transform the lead within our life into the gold of loving relationships, connection to our inherent nature and expansion of consciousness.
Discover visualization and self-hypnosis exercises to abolish the guilt and recover from the shame.
Ridding Yourself of Shame from Your Past
It’s only human to make mistakes, and we all have done things of which we’re not proud. Although time can blur the memory and alleviate the pain of stressful incidents from our past, often it’s not a simple task to overcome the guilt that stems from actions in our past. This could be something as relatively innocuous as telling a small lie or as profound and life-changing as cheating on someone in a romantic relationship.
Could clicking on the wrong link cause porn addiction?
Timmy Gordon is looking up an innocent science fiction film when he stumbles across a truly forbidden planet: computer porn. As a generally upstanding and genial fella, Timmy is shocked, then curious and then very interested. But Timmy feels a little guilty and doesn't want his new main squeeze Alice to find out but he thinks he could be developing a porn addicition. And it could ruin his relationship.
