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Sensitivity Is Strength!
If you tend to feel ashamed of your emotions, it might be time to dig through your shame in order to unearth your core exuberant, loving, passionate…
Jul 24
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Heather Havrilesky
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Being Sensitive and Emotional Isn't Easy
Don't let it make you ashamed of who you are!
Jul 22
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Heather Havrilesky
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‘I'm Ready for Love But I Don't Know How to Start!’
Vulnerability requires surrender. Surrender takes practice. You start by savoring your conflicted, greedy soul.
Jul 18
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Heather Havrilesky
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‘I'm Ready for Love But I Don't Know How to Start!’
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'I Love My Roommate's Cat But I Don't Know How to Love People!'
Learning to stand up for everything you love is a path toward accepting people for who they are.
Jul 15
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Heather Havrilesky
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Does Love Make You Anxious?
If intimacy and fear are woven together for you, understanding the weather patterns of your emotional ecosystem can help.
Jul 11
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Heather Havrilesky
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Does Love Make You Anxious?
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‘My Colleague is the Biggest Fucknut!’
Never waste your enormous power engaging with envious people. Compassion and respect for yourself and others will feed your energy instead of draining…
Jul 8
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Heather Havrilesky
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'Am I Making a Fool of Myself?'
Navigating your social life without understanding your values and principles is like floating in an inflatable raft on the high seas. Time to build…
Jul 2
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Heather Havrilesky
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June 2024
Managing Your Expectations of Friends
If two friends aren't equally invested, does that mean the friendship should end?
Jun 28
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Heather Havrilesky
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'I Treat My Friends Like Enemies!'
Go easier on yourself and you'll be easier on your friends, too.
Jun 24
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Heather Havrilesky
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'I Treat My Friends Like Enemies!'
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'I'm 35 and I Feel Like a Shell of a Person!'
Blaming yourself for every emotion you feel will eventually make you numb.
Jun 17
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Heather Havrilesky
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'I'm a Hot Ass Mess!'
Breaking out of perfect, productive machine mode is difficult but necessary.
Jun 13
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Heather Havrilesky
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'I'm a Hot Ass Mess!'
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‘Save Me From the Black Hole of Validation!’
Sometimes asking for reassurance is just another way of disrespecting yourself.
Jun 11
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Heather Havrilesky
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