When Comfort Becomes a Trap: Rethinking How We Soothe Our Emotional Discomfort

by | Happiness & Self-Esteem

Feeling worse when you experience the onset of certain emotions or feeling as if you’re trying to anaesthetize feelings you’re attempting to repress, or feeling at a loss as to what to do when you need comfort and support, means that, like many of us, you haven’t...

The Self-Blame Habit

by | Happiness & Self-Esteem

As children, when something ‘bad’ happened, we looked around for a reason that ‘made sense’ to explain our feelings, the whys and hows, etc. We did this to work out what we needed to be and do in the future to avoid experiencing that negative outcome again. Kids see...