This is what I have found to be a list of personality traits that produce and keep a relationship stuck in dysfunction and toxicity. The severity of these personality factors can go from mild to structural, with the latter forming a personality disorder. 10. Holding a grudge and being unforgiving – this comes from a…

I have to say, rejection is, arguably, the most electrically charged core wound of the human psyche. Through reading this article, you might notice that I myself have been exposed to this quite dramatically and that there is a flavour of pain lingering in the lines that follow… Before I begin, I want to state…

I have noticed over and over again, both in my personal experience and in that of most people who make inner work a priority, that shifts are very similar to school classes. You arrive at school and you take on a subject. Let’s say it’s math. And let’s say you only take Math because you’re…

In a world where everything has to “make sense”, where everything has to have some type of value to the sum, to the collective, to the construct, the only pleasant thing that is perceived freeing is Sexuality. In a world where parents do a lousy job at unravelling, nourishing, encouraging, developing a child’s uniqueness and…

Let’s take the example of a woman who has been rejected by her parents. In some form, they didn’t really care about her – they left her with relatives, they didn’t respond to her basic requests for love and attention and warmth, they didn’t make her feel valuable, etc. This is what she has learned…