The REAL Reason We Look For Validation and Approval…and how to overcome it.
I grew up needing attention and the approval of my father like it was a drug. I was nothing if he wasn’t proud of me, or hadn’t signed off with a nod anything I was pursuing. Even when I was working autonomously in a successful role in Internal Communication and PR, I was still referring […]
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How Hypocrisy And White Lies In The Online Space Is Actually HELPING Authentic People
I have a bee in my bonnet at the moment about this ‘GAME’ that people play in the online space. It’s the game where people tell white lies about what success they’ve had, or who they know in order to position themselves as experts in their industry. ‘Everyone does it’, they’ll tell you. ‘There’s nothing […]
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Why You Probably Aren’t Sabotaging Yourself
If there’s one word that I feel uncomfortable with, it’s self-sabotage. When I hear that word it hits me right in the gut. I feel like it’s a really big judgement to place on myself. I understand the concept of self-sabotage to be, the things we do (thoughts, behaviours, inaction) that stop us getting what […]
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One Simple Way to Cultivate Self-Love
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay It seems like forever that we’ve been hearing people say, ‘self-love should come before anything else’. We come across it in almost every self-help, spiritual and personal development book, podcast, blog. I could never quite get my head […]
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