Every family has some degree of anxiety, to varying degrees. This isn’t wrong, bad, or something to be rid of. It just is. In a Harvard study, they found that when mice was exposed to a toxic strawberry, they obviously expressed anxiety around it to ward off the threat. The interesting part, …
How to Get What You Want by Being Vulnerable
We’ve been trained to work to be right. Think of your school tests. Big red marker amplifying your ‘wrongness’ and a cute green checkmark accentuating your ‘rightness’. Okay, maybe some things have changed, but the development of human nature hasn’t. Most of us still have the need to be right, to …
How to Deepen Your Attraction to Your Partner
If you hated math, how long would it take you to tune someone out if they started talking about advanced calculus equations? Instantly you would be repelled. Now you might hang in there to stay friendly or to ‘not hurt their feelings’ through disinterest, yet part of you would have left the …