You Can Overcome ‘Creative Mortification’
Have you ever suffered creative mortification? Coined by educator Ronald Beghetto, the term describes losing your willingness to pursue a creative avenue following a negative outcome. Maybe you gave up…
How to Get Over Your Messy-House Shame
Photo: Africa Studio (Shutterstock) Scrolling through social media, with its carefully curated images of beautiful, clutter-free living spaces, often has the effect of making you feel inadequate about your own…
How Your Guilt Can Actually Help You
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) After making a mistake, feeling guilt is a good thing—it means you have empathy. Sometimes our guilt is self-imposed and unhelpful, like after you let yourself relax…
What Is a Narcissistic Collapse?
Photo: SB Arts Media (Shutterstock) The term “narcissist” is thrown around a lot to describe any self-centered person, but narcissistic personality disorder is a real diagnosis that can be pretty…
Things You Should Never Say to Someone Struggling with Depression
Photo: Chanintorn.v (Shutterstock) Whatever your experiences with own mental health, it’s daunting to find the perfect thing to say when someone you care about is struggling with depression. But it’s…
How to Separate Your Identity From Your Behavior (and Why You Should)
Illustration: pimchawee (Shutterstock) In a perfect world, it’d be easy to untangle our mistakes from our personal identities, but in reality, it’s rarely a simple task. Everyone’s life is riddled…
We Shouldn’t Call Kids ‘Crybabies,’ Even If They Cry a Lot
Photo: Rido (Shutterstock) The word “crybaby” evokes a certain image: a child who seems to tear up over things of little consequence, multiple times a day, and for several minutes…
How to Overcome Religious Shame in Your Sex Life
If you were raised to see sex and sexuality as a source of shame and embarrassment, you might notice that such feelings tend to linger, no matter how educated, open-minded,…