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When Divorce Feels Like Emotional Whiplash
One day your spouse says they want a divorce.
The next day they want to work things out.
Then they say maybe you can just “stay friends.”
That feels like emotional whiplash and it’s painful. It keeps you hopeful and scared at the same time. You don’t know...
While the term “ghosting” has only been around since about the early 2000s, the act of ghosting (cutting off contact without warning) has been around much longer. By now most people have either had an experience of being ghosted or know someone who has. Whether it was you or a friend, the pain of be...
The first book I ever suggested to a client, and one I still recommend 20 years later, is The Four Agreements. One of the agreements is “Don’t take things personally.”
This is the one people struggle with most. When someone says or does something upsetting, it feels personal because it hurts us. To...
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