Pulling away due to Witness Fatigue for others is self-preservation. But to you, it feels like abandonment.

When a partner leaves because we were enough we’re faced with a strange kind of validation.

Global values guide your ideas about fairness, justice, truth, freedom, and the way people should treat one another across systems and groups.

Personal values are the deeply held principles that guide how you relate to yourself—and how you want others to relate to you. They are your internal compass. They shape your sense of personal integrity, identity, and worth.

Secondary guilt is born from the belief that our behaviour, thoughts, or needs will result in us being pushed out—no longer accepted by our family, friends, partner, workplace, or “tribe.”

Just because women from all cultures report higher levels of guilt doesn’t prove it’s genetic.

I think only you get to decide the meaning of an event in your life.

I almost stopped reading self-help books entirely about eighteen years ago because, quite frankly, I was bored out of my tree.

Coping mechanisms are psychological and emotional adaptations we develop in response to painful, threatening, or unsafe experiences — especially during childhood but as adults too.

Some of us didn’t grow up feeling protected — so we became the protectors.

This blog is for the silenced intuitive.

🌀 The Inner U-Turn — where we retreat before the gift can land. 👀 The Side Glance — where we peek at what we want but never look it fully in the eye.