If you asked anyone – including yourself – whether they want mutually supportive and fulfilling relationships, you can assume the answer is going to be yes. If you asked anyone who isn’t experiencing mutually supportive and fulfilling relationships, what the problem was, chances are they’ll be able to run off a list of reasons…Read more »
Tag: Relationships
Improve interpersonal relationships. How we interact with others
Hello, is anybody home? Why we ‘close off’ and why it’s so damaging
‘No man is an island’ is a common saying but I still had to Google who actually wrote it first. It turns out it’s part of a poem penned by English writer John Donne in 1624 as part of his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions work. The prose continues ‘…every man is a piece of…Read more »
Rock-a-bye baby: the ability to self-soothe
No, we’re not talking a cure for insomnia (although that would be useful), what I mean here is the ability to find peace or at the very least, a sense of calm, within ourselves without relying on unhealthy habits. I first heard the term ‘self-soothe’ when my sister had her first baby. It’s a stage…Read more »
The enemy within: Everyday Narcissism
It sounds very dramatic. It’s not. Not really. Good or bad, we’re all the product of our experiences, our genetics and our upbringing. As soon as we start to socialise, our own individual bundle of idiosyncrasies starts colliding with the rest of humanity as we start developing our interpersonal relationships – all of which are…Read more »