The People-Pleasing Diet: Why you’ve got to give up trying to please The Unpleasables
It’s painful when the realisation hits you, that when it comes to a certain someone or even certain people in your life, nothing, and I do literally mean nothing is ever enough. You could literally walk over hot coals, limbo under a bar held 5cm off the ground...Lessons From Parenting My Five-Year Old: Why Mistakes Don’t Make You A ‘Bad Person’ & Why They’re Needed For Growth
I learn a lot about me, my younger self and self-esteem through my relationship with my daughters. They’ve taught me to be more self-compassionate, patient, empathetic and loving, because not only do I think about how their childhood experiences are shaping...You Can’t Meet ‘Everyone’s’ Expectations. Really.
When people share their stories with me about why they find it hard to even like themselves, or why they’re exhausted people pleasing doormats, or even why they have an overactive self-blame ‘thyroid’, I realise that a lot of what happiness is, is...
Forget ‘Mr. Good Enough’, Mr Perfect & The Fairy Tale: Get Real So You Can Get Happy
Over the past week or so, I can’t seem to escape the title of this new book — Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough written by New Yorker, Lori Gottlieb, who is basically saying that women who continue the pursuit of ‘Mr Right’...
