Ever feel like you're your own worst enemy? You're not alone. Self-sabotage is when you get in your own way, often without even realizing it. It's like hitting the brakes just when you're about to ...

Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. By Emma Goldberg There’s a certain flavor of ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Many of us turn to self-help when we want to improve our ...

As women, it feels like we’re always balancing a million things work, hobbies, friendships, motherhood, relationships, and so on. But how often are we focusing on ourselves? One of the most powerful ...

“There is no complete recovery from a fundamentalist childhood” (82). So writes Margaret Miles in her latest book, Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter. Miles was the first woman to receive ...

Emotional healing and growth require adherence to certain neurological and biological principles. Ignoring or violating any one of them inhibits healing and growth. This post will describe the major ...

When I was in seventh grade, I read Jen Sincero’s “You Are A Badass,” an extremely popular self-help book at the front of every bookstore in 2013. Part of the appeal was a friend’s insistence that it ...

It is impossible to get rid of anxiety because it exists to help us, says cognitive psychotherapist Owen O'Kane. Instead, he ...