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What Is People-Pleasing?
People-pleasing is an overwhelming desire to gain approval, avoid conflict, and ensure the happiness of others, and can significantly impact an individual's life, relationships, and well-being.
How To Stop Being A People-Pleaser
When Infertility Changes Who You Are: Grieving and Coping with Identity Loss
Infertility isn’t just a medical condition. It can also deeply affect how you see yourself and your vision for the future. When you’re grieving infertility, you’re also grieving the loss of the life you hoped to leave, along with a strongly held identity and sense of self.
What Counts as a Chronic Illness? Why Infertility Belongs on the List
For many people with infertility, their unique symptoms and frustrations can feel like a chronic illness. However, infertility is not broadly recognized as a legitimate chronic illness.
Coping with Anxiety: Developing Adaptive and Effective Stress Responses
Does it ever feel like coping with anxiety is simply impossible? Maybe when you get anxious, you can’t concentrate, and you start making mistakes at work or in school.
Healing While Parenting: How to Move Forward After Birth Trauma
You recently welcomed your child into the world, but you’ve been struggling to make sense of your birth experience. Countless women struggle with birth trauma, yet society pressures mothers to keep quiet about any negative feelings connected with childbirth.
People-Pleasing Behaviors: What They Are and How to Address Them
Maybe you feel uncomfortable when you disagree with other people, even on small matters. Perhaps you can’t bring yourself to turn down requests for help, regardless of how busy you are.
Understanding Prolonged Grief: How to Recognize When It’s Affecting Your Daily Life
If you’ve recently suffered a loss, it’s normal to feel deeply sad, anxious, confused, and lonely. Even if you’re surrounded by people, it can seem like no one really understands what you’re going through.
Healing from Loss: Helpful Strategies for Coping With Heightened Anxiety
After losing a loved one, you expect to feel deeply sad. People often conceptualize grief as a pervasive sense of sorrow that affects every area of your life, sapping your energy and making it difficult to focus on anything except your loved one’s passing.
How to Identify Codependent Tendencies Before They Take Hold in Your Relationships
Maybe you’ve recently started dating someone new, and you’re excited about the relationship. Yet you’ve experienced codependency in past relationships, and you don’t want to fall into the same patterns this time around.
Exploring the Link Between Infertility and Depression
If you’re living with infertility, you know that this journey can feel exhausting, lonely, and unfair. You might be stepping away from social events because people in your life have been insensitive to the unique challenges you’re facing.
What is Radical Acceptance? The DBT Skill Explained
Learning how to practice acceptance in the midst of troubling times is a key skill. Radical acceptance is a cornerstone of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Here’s how you can start implementing these helpful principles in your daily life.
Illness Anxiety Disorder: Recognizing Symptoms and Seeking Help
If you struggle with anxiety, you might be prone to catastrophizing. Thinking about possible negative outcomes for any situation makes you feel like you’re prepared for anything.
Overcoming the Weight of Failure: Strategies for Coping with Feelings of Underachievement
It may seem like everyone else in your life has succeeded in reaching their own goals. No one really understands what you’re going through. You might even be avoiding opening up to others because you’re embarrassed about your failures. But failure can be a learning opportunity. Plus, you may be surprised by how much you’ve already accomplished. Here’s how to cope with uncomfortable feelings around failure and underachievement.
How to Build Adaptive Stress Responses to Help Anxiety
Developing adaptive stress responses will strengthen your emotional resilience and help you navigate difficult situations without feeling anxious. Here’s how to gradually change your response to stress so that you can let go of your anxiety.
Understanding the Mental Health Impact of Infertility
If you’ve been struggling with infertility, you might be frustrated with the physical and emotional aspects of this difficult path.
From Fear to Fuel: Transforming Anxiety into Motivation
Anxiety, often viewed as a hindrance, can be a powerful catalyst for personal growth and achievement. By reframing your perspective, you can harness the energy of anxious thoughts and transform them into motivation.
Anxiety and Social Media: Are They Related?
Relying on social media can be detrimental to anxiety.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss: My Relationship Is Struggling
Going through pregnancy or experiencing the loss of a child are two very different things, but they’re also two of the most emotionally-trying things you can go through in your relationship. Whether you’re expecting and your relationship is struggling, or it seems that you and your partner are completely disconnected after the loss of your infant, it’s important to know that your relationship isn’t doomed.
Infertility and Sex: 5 Ways To Keep Sex Fun
Infertility can change the way you look at sex. When you’re trying to conceive and having trouble, sex can feel more like a chore, or even a source of anxiety. Instead of treating it as a deep connection with your partner or something you both can enjoy, it becomes something that makes you miserable, knowing the slim likelihood of getting pregnant.