A narcissistic personality is often “balanced” by a codependent personality. As mentioned above, narcissists are typically men. These men often marry codependent women. (I discuss codependency here on my blog.) Narcissists expect their partners to…
Another election has come and gone. You may have spent the last few months in a constant state of anxiety, nerves, and stress. When you woke up the morning the election results were posted, those feelings may have worsened.
Your parents raised you to work hard and strive for your best. This push made you complete your homework, study hard, and aim for a high percentage on all assignments, quizzes, and tests.
While it is normal to experience anxiety every once in a while, its interference in your daily life is cause for action. A helpful coping trick is called "The 3-3-3 Rule."
Are you living with a deep sense of distraction, heightened stress, brain fog, lack of motivation, or relationship trouble? Cutting down anxious, internal noise to become self-aware is essential for living a full and happy life.
The holidays may not feel like they did before. Acknowledge that could be like this for a while. Think of this holiday season as a new start, without any expectations. Allowing the season and your response to it to be what they are can ease a great deal of anxiety.
When you’re thick in the middle of living with an anxiety disorder, hope may seem utterly impossible. Perhaps you’ve endured so many failures and disappointments due to anxiety’s presence in your life that you can’t even imagine what hope would look like.
Exhaustion, it seems, is part and parcel of today’s world. Numerous responsibilities, distractions, and stressors pile up. Work, household chores, raising children, incessant stimulation from…
If you’ve ever felt like it’s impossible to separate who you really are from the noisy chatter in your head, you’re not alone. For better or worse, most of us live with an interior soundtrack that likes to tell us all kinds of things.
Last year threw so much at everyone that stress has become the new norm. While stress has always been a part of life, the changes and uncertainty of 2020 has brought a new type of stress.