Love Yourself First
Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, maybe you bought someone flowers. Maybe you took them out to dinner or prepared them an extravagant meal. Maybe you told them you love them to the world and back, and wrote them a card saying [...]
Wasted Time and Death Anxiety
A relative called me a few weeks ago and asked, “is now a good time to talk?” I glanced sidelong at the ever-growing “to do” list on my laptop. “Sure,” I replied, “I think I can make a few minutes!” [...]
How Your Secret is Damaging Your Relationship
“Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, that secret is actually keeping us.” -Frank Warren, owner of Postsecret.com Seeking Connection When you enter into an intimate relationship, you are seeking a deep, real connection with another person. I [...]
Loneliness and Online Harassment
Maybe it’s because I’ve been rereading Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, but the above discomforting interaction led me to think a lot about vulnerability, connection, and loneliness. Let me explain. I have two profiles on Facebook. One, which I’ve been [...]
Why I’m Reducing My Facebook Use in 2016 – And You Should Too
This morning, I left my home to discover that it was raining hard. If you’re reading this from a different region of the country, you might be wondering why that’s even noteworthy, but for those of us in Southern California, [...]