by KosjenkaM | 4.Sep. 2013 | Emotional wellbeing, Personal growth
How many times did you make such a decision: starting tomorrow, I will quit smoking, biting my nails, overeating, drinking coffee… or: I will start exercising, watch less television, be more organized… Typically, such decisions appear easy to...
by KosjenkaM | 5.Mar. 2014 | Emotional wellbeing, Integrity
Emotional “hypersensitivity” is a relative category, just like various types of sensory sensitivities. Can somebody tell you that you are “overly sensitive” to chili, for example? People are differently sensitive to sounds, smells,...
by KosjenkaM | 17.Mar. 2014 | Emotional wellbeing, Coaching
Emotional masochism Many people are bonded to suffering in some way. As children, they might have learned that they would be rewarded or comforted if they suffer, or they might have observed suffering people receiving special care and...
by KosjenkaM | 10.May. 2014 | Emotional wellbeing, Abuse
“Intuition is always right in at least two important ways:1. It is always in response to something.2. It always has your best interest at heart.(…) Our interpretation of intuition is not always right.”Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear This time I want to...
by KosjenkaM | 12.Dec. 2015 | Emotional wellbeing, Coaching
A danger in any therapy practice is if a therapist only focuses on one aspect of the problem – usually the one (s)he is specialized in. While most emotional issues have at least some psychological components that can be addressed through therapy, it’s important to...
by KosjenkaM | 17.Jan. 2016 | Emotional wellbeing, Integrity, Recommended Articles
Recently I had an interesting philosophical discussion about what “mature behavior” and “mature emotions” actually are, and according to which (and whose) criteria are they defined. Some of the criteria I already wrote about in the...
