how comparison kills and how we are killing it in 2023?
The grass is always greener on the other side. It is not, and we know the counter phrase. The grass is always greener where you water it. It might cross your mind that you are so confident in yourself that…
how to balance life during the frenzy of the holidays?
I don’t know when you are reading this, but surely an ending is near you of some sort. In my timeline over here, it’s the 6th of December 2022 and the year is ending. As endings approach, we have to…
how accepting both sides of our duality lead to expansion?
For the past few weeks, we have been talking about black-and-white thinking and about how it affects us. We have also talked about finding the grey. The problem here is that we tend to confuse the duality of our beings…
how setting expectations on life limits our dreams?
We want to see the gorgeous, we want to see the pretty. We want to live life the way they do in the movies, careless and with a general feeling of freedom. Well, don’t we forget that for movies to…
how the idea of a pretty life comes from black-and-white thinking?
The derivation of pretty life from black-and-white thinking We all love pretty things. It is perfectly okay to love pretty things. Who doesn’t love a nicely curated Pinterest feed? Or building the aesthetic of our life as we desire. The…
how to slow the emotional pendulum and reach for contentment?
Let’s talk about contentment and how to avoid the emotional pendulum. It sounds exactly like happiness doesn’t it? Well, it really isn’t. In your mind contentment might feel like settling. Like not going after the biggest goal and staying in…
how does looking at life as black or white ruin the magic?
Although black and white can be pretty aesthetic, let’s remember that all black and white pictures work on a grayscale. They don’t just have black or white, they also have all the shades of grey between them. Black and white…
how does discomfort make us want to fix every detail of our lives?
“I want to fix everything in my life, my emotions, my relationships, my career and who I am” Everything. That “everything” is a tough one and let me tell you now that it’s not possible. The things we feel from…
how to cope with the feelings that come up in silence?
Who would’ve thought that there was a problem with silence huh? What did it do? Not say a word in a fight? (I make really bad jokes I’m warning you) Silence is something we almost never get as often as…
how are feelings of discomfort part of any relationship?
We have been told time and time again that there is no relationship without conflict. That conflict can be internal within you, within your partner or obvious between you too. The conflict that comes out in relationships is due to…