How do we uncover our self-worth? Is it assigned by others, ourselves, or combination of the two? What does it mean to feel worthy? And how do we know if our self-worth has been impacted by our interactions or relationships? Self-worth, simply put, is how you value your own personhood. In the face of any […]
How to Figure Out What Healthy Boundaries Mean for You
Healthy boundaries allow us to find the right people to participate in our care communities. But what does the relationship building process look like and how do we coordinate our relationship building process with others? In other words, how do we figure out and communicate our own healthy boundaries and build strong care communities? One […]
How to Manage Emotional Vulnerability
Emotional vulnerability is one of the greatest ways to connect with others, it’s an indiscriminate force. We’re all deeply impacted by vulnerability whether it’s in sharing our own or accessing the vulnerability in others. Fundamentally, it’s how we show our humanness and how we see humanness in others. This can trigger people in a bad […]
Take a Peek Into Your Emotional Framework
Understanding our emotional framework allows us to build a healthy self awareness and get our needs met in effective and productive ways. We can build healthier, more sustainable relationships by looking at our emotional framework and understanding how we operate in terms of balancing our needs with the needs of others. Every relationship depends on […]
How to Express Our Feelings without Holding Back
Oftentimes when we want to express our feelings, we worry about how they’ll be received. Being in a relationship means concerning yourself with others feelings. If we’re over concerned, or over empathizing, we end up suppressing our own feelings or needs in unhealthy ways. Balancing our feelings, needs, capacity with what someone else needs is […]
How to Identify Your Feelings with Clarity
Identify your feelings with clarity by being open and honest with yourself. Blocking our feelings, or lacking the ability to identify them, happens as a result of telling ourselves that we should or shouldn’t feel that way. We’re ashamed of our feelings so instead of sharing them we talk ourselves out of having them at […]
How to Enforce Healthy Boundaries
How to enforce healthy boundaries starts first by knowing how boundaries serve us. Imagine a glass jar and every experience is a penny. Are the pennies bright and shiny copper? Or are they covered in dirt and grime like pennies you’d rather not keep? Every day, every moment, is a penny in your jar. When […]
The 3 Foundational Principles of How to be Happy with Yourself
There are three three foundational principles of how to be happy with yourself. Following these principles will allow you to bring awareness to your true self, explore your needs in a more open and authentic way, and connect with the right people. Each principle relies on personal honesty and commitment to self. When you follow […]
5 Ways We Stop Ourselves from Being Happy
Here’s how you can start prioritizing happy. Personal happiness is not our default human state. It takes work, commitment, and self-discipline. Otherwise, we easily give ourselves away to others, much more than we give ourselves to ourselves. Personal discipline allows us to value ourselves—and our own voice—enough to discover our priorities, then protect them with […]
Where Have You Put Yourself on the Self-Worth Scale?
Do You Know Your Self-assigned Self-worth? Most of us would say we do. We believe we know our self-worth and we often demand to be treated, paid, or acknowledged in accordance. The problem with tallying up our worth this way is that it’s mostly associated with conflicts, with the value people have assigned to us. […]