Comfort zones apply to us all, whether yours is performing in front of a crowd or nestling away with a good book! However, more often than not, we reach a plateau where we're stuck in the confines of a routine and want to try something new to inject a little…
If you’re always trying to help others at the cost of neglecting yourself, you might suffer from the savior complex. Whether you admit it or not, you could be under the impression that you’re omnipotent. This means you feel as though you can solve everyone’s problems, and help them change…
There are lots of things to do with family and friends, but there are also many things to do when alone on Christmas. The holidays are exciting, and there are always so many things to enjoy with family and friends. But even if you’re alone on Christmas, you can have…
It is surprising when you think about how much of the English language is peppered with German words. We talk, without realising half the time, that we are borrowing words from one of our closest European neighbours. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of these ‘loanwords’ are…
If you have read George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it may seem that these two novels have nothing in common except for the fact that they both describe dystopian societies of the future. And yet, they both provide the same recipe for mental slavery that is…
There was once a time where people gave their views. Those were the intellectuals, the people with proven credentials who had specific knowledge on a subject. Now it seems that everyone’s opinion is valid. So has this given rise to the pseudo-intellectual and how are they different from smart people?…
The basic idea of spiritual bypassing revolves around not facing problems, and instead, searching for enlightenment first. I think we have it backward. During the decades of trauma I endured, I experienced many things, not just the trauma. I realized, at some point, that I was living in denial, I…
The path of a people pleaser is a difficult road. No matter what anyone asks of you and no matter how badly your inner voice screams out no, your default and automatic response will always be a yes. You know you have just signed yourself up for chaos and havoc,…
