Defensiveness: give yourself a break and apologize for real

Sep 2, 2021 | 2021, Education, Health, Personal Development

Even good people need to work on healthy apologies and overcoming defensiveness. Alex Kestrel offers some tips In his new “Starting With You” column on self-investment.

Asexuality: the coming out that never ends

Aug 13, 2021 | 2021, LGBTQ+, Personal Development

Asexuality and its spectrum trigger indifference and confusion among both LGBTQ communities and the “heteronormative.”

Fighting the bullies inside: strategies to stop beating yourself up

Aug 4, 2021 | 2021, Health, Personal Development

We can’t accept constant negative self-talk as normal. We need to decide that it’s a problem to be solved. Self-bullying eats away at us and degrades us. Decreasing negative automatic thoughts, by contrast, has been shown to decrease depression symptoms.