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How To Keep Antagonists In A Healthy Perspective?
Posted on June 16, 2021 Leave a Comment
Why did she treat me that way? Why is he not supporting me? I feel like you don’t want me to succeed in life? Often, my mother told us that “everyone has a role to play.” Yet, sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight that both protagonists (supportive people)and antagonists (nonsupportive people) help us live our […]
Breaking The Tradition of Learned Responses
Posted on June 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
Over time, we’ve observed various responses to many situations. Whether it was an angry outburst, crying, the quiet treatment, or throwing something, we internalized many emotions because we thought these emotions were “the right way to act.” Many of us are angry, fearful, resentment, and we don’t know why. Sometimes, when others inquire why we […]
How To Walk Instead of Jumping The Expectation Hurdles?
Posted on June 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Often mother would say, “as long as people have a tongue, they will talk. Pay attention to their actions.” My mother was not telling us not to trust people but to leave some space between expectations and realizations. The Webster dictionary defines expect as 1. to consider probable or certain. 2. to consider reasonable due […]