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Leon F Seltzer PhdPsychology Today |
In important relationships, you want people to comfortably open up to you.
Distinguishing between the real and what feels real is harder than you think.
Goal-oriented? Stressful obstacles are inevitable. Are you ready to tackle them?
If you’re a “know-it-all,” complacency will impair your learning new things.
How do you best move forward when you’re feeling mentally and emotionally stuck?
Ambition is a good thing, until it obliterates all other considerations.
Whether we change naturally, or only with effort, is highly debatable.
It’s crucial to distinguish solving a problem from actually resolving it.
What to do when a friend betrays your ideas of fairness and reciprocity.
Disunited we fail: Are we literally headed toward sea-to-sea in-fighting?
A partner’s frustrating, overbearing behavior may have little to do with intent.
Most emotional abusers must learn to think not moralistically but empathically.
When adults minimize or neglect a child’s distress, they feel invalidated.
“Evolved” dishonesty is far less egocentric than the more naive, juvenile kind.
Borderlines deny their child’s separate reality, unwittingly gaslighting them.
It all depends on the situation either to embrace silence or shun it.
There are crucial reasons to welcome—rather than resist—criticism.
How much approval and validation do you need from your partner to feel okay?
Needfully lavishing praise on someone is unlikely to get you into their heart.