Flying too Close to the Sun: Hubris Are you familiar with the myth of Icarus?The boy that wanted to fly?He constructed wings made of wax and took to the sky,

Taking Responsibility: Overcoming the Victim Mentality It is so easy to be a victim, to be somebody who life just happens to. There you are, going about your day, and

Filling Your Own Cup: The Importance of Self-Love When I was younger I got the advice, “You have to love yourself before you can love someone else.” At the time

The Aversion to Happiness: Self-Sabotage I am reading a book right now called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, it’s about how when we are just on the cusp of

Find your Tribe: Prevention vs. Promotion Focused As you move down your healing path. You will encounter other people that do not know how to adapt to the changes that

Mourning our Lost Selves Whenever you make a change parts of you die. To make room for new growth the leaves of a tree have to fall to the ground

Giving What’s Needed: Communal vs. Exchange Relationships I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about unhealthy relationship patterns. Today I figured that I’d write about two relationship

Forging your Life: Massive Action Many people in my generation horribly underestimate the work required to make things happen. We are often too focused on trying to work smarter that

Projection: I’m Not Who You Think I Am We are all out of touch with reality.  The most mindblowing thing that I learned during my time studying Neuroscience was that

Mutually Assured Destruction: Codependency When considering a relationship there’s an adage in Alcoholics Anonymous that states: “Well, in your first year of sobriety, buy a plant, at the end of