I believe it is more helpful to think of confidence as something we build over time through a series of small victories and successes. And a

Hoping that some particular person, at any one time, will stop doing the things they're doing so my life can be easier. Or...

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Our emotions are sensations in our own body which are processed by our brain, and they are ours and ours alone, and they come from the thoug

This is the end result of a society which teaches that “boys will be boys” and asks, “What was she wearing?”.

next time a scenario presents itself to you, and you feel like you are spinning in indecision, maybe try asking yourself: If I knew I had my

; sometimes, when we're too close to a situation, we can't see what is under our noses or areas that need attention. This is precisely like

When we make decisions from a place of survival, we are focused on keeping our heads above water and getting through the day-to-day. We may

if all you had was happiness, it wouldn't feel very good because you wouldn't have anything to measure it against. You would have no idea of

the reality is that you don't have to identify as a people pleaser to still be behaving in a way which does not always have your best

find the smallest possible step that you can take, which moves you in the direction that gets you closer to your goal.

I know when I was spending all my time people pleasing, it was never enough. I never did enough nice things. I never felt safe in being li

, our journey towards self-improvement is plagued by self-judgement and old nonsense about all the times we have got it wrong in the past.

people pleasing that we are socialised into, which is one of the main causes of people not speaking up against oppression.

a pervasive culture of people-pleasing, one which often silences critical voices in the face of oppression. But it's high time we consider:

What people get out of my courses is the possibility that maybe we could take some of the pressure off right now so that we're not always lo

When you equate thinness with morality and conflate thinness with health, the result is that people who do not fit into socially acceptable

Creating hypercritical views of yourself is a natural result of a society which constantly reminds us that our value is our attractiveness.

the emotional roller coaster gets too much when all of those high-volume emotions feel like there are too many in one place at one time.

for those of us who value empathy, who centre social justice and who have wide-open-hearted care for people - this can pose a problem.