We all have an inner critic. The voice inside, that can beat us down when we make a mistake or feel insecure about ourselves. For some of us, though, this …
Personal Development Goals: How To Follow Better Habits
From a young age, we’re taught to focus on getting the grades, but I don’t remember any guidance on how to develop within. The necessity of improving our minds on …
Emotional Overload: How To Lighten The Load Now
In the moments where I experience emotional overload, I’m reminded of how non-linear healing is. I don’t feel engulfed by my emotions nearly as much as I used to, but …
Fearful Avoidant Attachment: How To Manage The Chaos
So we’ve now reached the “short straw” of insecure styles—the fearful-avoidant attachment. Also known as the disorganised attachment. It’s the most challenging of the attachment styles because it combines both …
Avoidant Attachment: How To Overcome Your Fear Of Being Vulnerable
Last week, we learned about the anxious attachment. This week’s post is about the second of the three insecure attachment forms: the avoidant attachment style. Once I learned about this …
Anxiously Attached? Understand How You Came To Be This Way
This week’s post is about the first of the three insecure attachment forms: the anxious attachment style. When I first learned about this one, I immediately thought, “That’s me!” Yes, …
Securely Attached? How To Determine If It’s Your Style
This week’s post marks the first instalment of a 4-part series on attachment. Attachment theory and attachment styles sparked a fascination in me a while back when I started dating. …
Mental Fatigue: Trust Me, It’s Real. Learn How To Recover
Mental fatigue (also known as mental exhaustion) is exactly what it says on the tin: your mind is exhausted. It is often the result of “prolonged cognitive activity,” where you’ve …
Self-Compassion: How To Change Our Inner Voice
Some of us are limitlessly compassionate towards the world around us, but we severely lack that level of compassion for ourselves. I still am, on some level, one of those …
Motivation vs Discipline: Is One More Important Than The Other?
Motivation vs discipline. Before I started healing, these two concepts were not things I gave much thought to. Whenever I didn’t follow through, I assumed I was just lazy. It …