How many times have you caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and felt discouraged, maybe even disgusted? Or seen a photo of yourself and immediately criticized how your body looked? These responses are so conditioned in us that they’re second nature - we don’t even think about it but we immediately look for what is wrong and what doesn’t look good…

Most of us never learned how to set boundaries with others, not necessarily because we’re bad people or because we had bad parents, (though we may have had poor boundaries modeled to us), but because at some point not having boundaries worked in our favor. Maybe we felt liked, needed, wanted. Maybe doing things for others is where we found purpose, or worth…

Which communication style are you? What you say is just as important as how you say it. Learn the 4 communication styles, and which one you should be aiming for.

How to stop being so hard on yourself for making mistakes, from a therapist.