Showing posts with label self-acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-acceptance. Show all posts
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Accept Yourself or Try to Change?

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

The Case for Not Changing Yourself Nor Your Situation

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

On Malleability How changeable are you?

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Monday, August 26, 2024

A Fast Talker: A fictional short-short story

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Two Minutes on Accepting Yourself

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Sunday, November 19, 2023

"I Have Low Sex Drive:" Part of a fictional diary series

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Confronting Our Limitations

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

How Much to Try to Change? How Much to Accept?

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My Psychology Today article today tells a composite story of a person who decided to stop fighting and start accepting. It then asks the rea...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Living with Being Below-Average

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We’re all below average in some things. The question is how to deal. My Psychology Tod...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Joy of Accepting That I'm Average

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I've always striven to be excellent, suppressing the many signs that, net, I'm pretty average. Today, that truth hit me. Surprisin...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Successful and Still Unhappy: 3 possibly easy fixes

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Many of my clients are financially successful yet still unhappy. I’ve offered tips on this previously, for example, Wealthy but Sad Syndro...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Dime a Dozen: Coming to Peace With Being Ordinary

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At some point, many of us come to have to accept that we're more ordinary than special. My PsychologyToday.com article today may help...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Delirium? Episode 2: Mixed Pleasure

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As I said at the beginning of Episode 1, I’m no James Joyce but I like the idea of experimenting with free-associative writing. So, une...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Ambition Versus Gratitude for What One Has

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I've always been driven but I'm having to make peace with the reality that I probably won't achieve most of the big dreams I h...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

"A Person of substance: The interior and exterior life of a morbidly obese person

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Today, I wrote a short-short story to encourage us to think about what we want to accept about ourselves versus commit to change. It's...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

When You Don’t Fit In: Deciding what to accept and what to change about ourselves.

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It’s tough when you feel don’t really fit in. My PsychologyToday.com article today, offers some help. HERE is the link.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Dying Well: Suggestions for an Easier Death and More Rewarding Life

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In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I revised an earlier article I wrote on dying well. HERE is the link.
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Up, Down, or Sideways: Helping You Decide What Career Strategy is Right for You

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How do you know whether you should strive to climb the ladder, stay put, or take a step down? In my PsychologyToday.com article, I ask you...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

“I’m Tired of Self-Improvement”: When self-acceptance is wiser

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The topic of my PsychologyToday.com article today: What should you keep trying to change about yourself and what should you accept as immuta...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Addressing the Imposter Syndrome

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In just the last few days, two clients said they suffer from the imposter syndrome, professional self-doubt. So my PsychologyToday.com a...