Summer is coming and so are the body image issues and insecurities we all have when wearing our bikinis at the beach. Beach body anxiety is a thing, a huge thing.
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Being an empath is fucking hard. If you are one you’ll completely understand but if you’re not I’ll tell you what it’s like being an empath.
Do You Know Your True Nature? Are You A Decent Person? How Well Do You Know Yourself?
We all think we know ourselves pretty good, right? For example; we could list dozens of things we do and don’t like, places we want to go, things that annoy us, things we’re good at, things that piss us off, what makes us laugh and tons more.
However, few of us have actually sat down and spent the time thinking and answering questions about ourselves. What I mean is answering questions with more depth that provoke more thought than something like what’s your favourite colour?
The benefit of answering questions about ourselves is a deeper understanding of what we’re made of, introspectively. By knowing ourselves we can also better understand everyone else.
The Proust Questionnaire
There is a questionnaire, popularized by a French essayist and author named Marcel Proust, that consists of a series of questions that he believed revealed a person’s true nature.
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“You’re not an introvert! If I had to describe you that would be the last thing I’d pick.”
This was part of an actual conversation between me and a friend recently.
“What?! Really?” was my reply. Mind blown.
My entire life I’ve known I am an introvert and just assumed that I seemed like one. (Not that it would be a bad thing.) I thought it was very apparent to everyone around me that I am an introverted personality.
I Was Failing At Life. Hard.
I’m sure you’ve been there at some point, feeling completely lost, in your personal or professional life. In the midst of deep dark emotions of regret and turmoil. Like you’re failing at life.
For years I was in this place, failing at life, I didn’t know where I was going or what I could possibly do to get there. I was severely depressed, unemployed, broke and alone.
One day, as I rode the elevator down on my way outside for a smoke break, I remember telling myself, “Don’t fuck this up, you have a good thing going here.” I was talking about my job. Somehow I knew I’d manage to do something to screw up the life I was living at the time. I wasn’t necessarily happy but I had a job at a financial services company working as an assistant to the managers and I thought I was doing what was appropriate or acceptable in the eyes of the world. It looked like I had my shit together.
What people couldn’t see though was that I was severely depressed, lonely, barely making enough money to eat and pay rent and I felt utterly hopeless.
Then before I could even say shit, it happened, I screwed it up. I was no longer employed. What the hell was I going to do?
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If I asked you, “What are your personal values?” would you be able to answer that?
Some of us probably could but I’m certain many of us would have to think about it first before winging the answer.
One way to really get to know yourself is to figure out what your personal values actually are.
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