It’s that they didn’t know what love was.

We cannot rush the formation of neural pathways, the development of new skills or the intricate workings of our hormones and enzymes.

Some desire is relational. Some desire is playful. And some desire is extractive.

Imagine the difference in your life if the people around you had owned their own vulnerability instead of projecting it onto you.

Self-referential morality is a subtle but pervasive pattern in which a person’s sense of right and wrong is organised around their own emotional comfort rather than the lived reality of another.

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.