If you’re struggling with dating and you feel like you end up in the wrong relationships because men are not able to commit past a certain point, then probably the problem is not about commitment but about consent! Yes, we live in a ME TOO era where most men are not used to saying NO when their emotional boundaries are being violated so women have the power to change their own outcomes by changing the framing of the problem.

We first learn relationships through the codependent nature of our bond to the caretakers. We need our parents to survive and we think that relationships with a romantic partner will also be as codependent as this. We would feel we don’t have air anymore without our partner and that’s exactly the kind of toxic relationship we want to avoid. That’s where the socks analogy comes in place. — Most often we run into problems in our relationships when we have a certain set of expectations that don’t overlap the blueprint of our partner. Once the first compatibility tests are passed by a couple, the ultimate compatibility is being able to adjust, compromise and collaborate in making the life…

For most people who feel sad and depressed, the first action they take is to get on anti-depressives and carry on with life as usual. But there is another way to go about this without involving drugs which only add up to bottling up emotions in the body: emotional healing therapies! — Being able to accommodate uncertainty in life is part of the development stage explained in Bowlby’s theories on attachment when the child learns to detach themselves from the parent. That detachment is the part where the child learns to take care of themselves in the world. …

The problem with death is that too often we connect it to a cemetery. And that is becoming especially important for religions like Christian Orthodox ones. But there’s a systemic root cause of why this is happening and we are not getting it solved for centuries because we can’t think straight when we’re grieving. — From a very young age, I hated cemeteries. Not just the places but also anything that would lead to thinking of such a place where there is so much grief gathered in one place. It felt like the dark whole that would drag you in it and you’d not be…

Digitalization of recruitment going through the age of Applicant Tracking Systems is proving to leave a lot of “humans” out of the workforce. This article goes in-depth about a problem we already face in recruitment for some years and will be even more intensified by the millions of job seekers left in unemployment due to Corona and automation of processes using RPA ( robotic processing applications).

“Say you’re sorry like you really mean it!” If you’ve heard this and you felt ashamed and guilty for not really being “honest” enough for the person who asked you this, then you’ve probably been gaslighted and you don’t even know it! — This is the line I’ve heard from my mom back in my childhood every time I would get her upset about something that I didn’t consider my fault but had to apologize for it anyway. …

On Medium, writers like that are called indie writers because they are raw, honest, real, and connect deeply with their audience. But in real life, they are called outspoken uncomfortable activists. The rule of thumb is that the less someone agrees with your openly expressed thoughts, the more uncomfortable you become for them. — The problem of freely speaking your mind in a lot of circumstances is that it jeopardizes your chances of getting accepted by the group especially if they quietly agree to turn a blind eye to the reality you are pointing out to. In many cases, the role of advocacy groups…

Actually, the difference couldn’t be bigger but a lot of millennials confuse the terms because the media industry is bombing them with ads and content on self-care selling it as the value of self-compassion. — As this article says: We sometimes use “self-care” as a proxy for “self-compassion.” But they’re actually different concepts. Self-compassion is regarding yourself compassionately. Self-care, by contrast, is treating yourself compassionately. The two terms sound interchangeable, but they contain a thinking versus doing distinction.