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A person's emotional storm raining down on someone else

April 22, 2024/Mental Health

Vicarious Trauma: What To Do When Others’ Distress Impacts Your Well-Being

Absorbing others’ trauma can take a big toll on your own mental health

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February 9, 2024/Mental Health

Self-Love: Why It’s Important and What You Can Do To Love Yourself

Like being your own best friend in times of trouble, self-love is an act of self-preservation

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January 23, 2024/Mental Health

How the Grey Rock Method Can Protect You From Abusive People and Toxic Interactions

Like a boring ol’ grey rock, the goal is to be unresponsive and uninteresting to dissuade a harmful situation

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January 22, 2024/Mental Health

9 Signs You’re Dealing With a ‘Narcissist’ (and Why That’s the Wrong Word to Use)

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition, not an insult

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January 19, 2024/Sex & Relationships

The Silent Treatment: Causes and Coping

Whether this behavior is abusive depends on the person doing it and their motivation

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November 20, 2023/Mental Health

7 Ways To Boost Your Health by Practicing Gratitude

Being intentional has far-reaching benefits

Person talking to healthcare provider to gain insight and tools to help with people pleasing behavior.

September 26, 2023/Sex & Relationships

Signs You’re a People-Pleaser — and How To Stop

Always putting others’ happiness before your own can build resentment over time

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September 25, 2023/Sex & Relationships

4 Signs of Enabling and How To Stop

When ‘helping’ others is unhealthy for you, it’s time to set firm boundaries

September 22, 2023/Sex & Relationships

What Is Hoovering? 7 Signs and How To Handle It

This manipulative tactic sucks people back into destructive relationships

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September 18, 2023/Mental Health

Deconstructing Stonewalling

This toxic approach to conflict is unintentional or intentional and verbal or nonverbal

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