Emotional Labor: 4 Tips for Sharing the Mental Load
Have you ever felt, much like Jennifer Aniston’s character in The Breakup, that you didn’t just want your partner to do the dishes; you wanted them to want to do the dishes? If so, you …
Mental Health
Mental health is essential to our overall well-being. Ideas and discussion of modern mental health practices and strategies for a healthy relationships and mindset.
Self-Respect: The Secret Sauce for Confidence, Compassion, and Contentment
Self-respect is a quiet force that often weaves its way through your entire day. It influences how you think about yourself, how you treat others, and your decisions. Learning to see it and appreciate its …
Building Empathy to Improve Your Health, Happiness, and Relationships
Empathy is a factor in humankind’s kindest and most altruistic actions, as well as its darkest and cruelest misdeeds. It can be the difference between a life of warmth and joy and one of cynicism …
5 Healthy Ways to Manage and Overcome Fear
Why is it that we teach children how to overcome fear from an early age yet spend much of our adult lives struggling to cope with our own? Of course, a healthy person will naturally …
Feeding the Feed: Rebuilding What We Consume Online
I am a millennial, a homebody, and (let’s be honest) a bit of a nerd. I spend a lot of time at my computer, and I consume a lot of content online. Despite what some …
Why You Really Should Judge People
One of my great joys as a self-help writer is to take a classic life advice cliche and pick a fight with it. These ideas have meaning and value, and there’s usually a good reason …
“There’s Always a Bench” – On Rituals
My wife and I have this little saying: “There’s always a bench.” When we find ourselves in a new place, or in the middle of a particularly impactful moment, we like to point out to …
5 Things Great Listeners Actually Do
It’s no secret that good listening is one of the most valuable (and underdeveloped) tools in human relationships. Of course, we all know it’s inappropriate to suck up all the air in the room and …
How to Say No (and When to Say Yes)
I’ve always been fascinated with words and how to use them. I’ve studied several languages, but I also love exploring my native language, English. I love picking it apart, learning new words, and taking a …
6 Simple Methods to Turn Toxic Arguments into Healthy Discussions
A lot is going on in the world right now, and many people seem to have lost their minds. So many divisive issues make it feel like healthy discussions are somehow out of the question …