Category: Love & Relationships

Braggers. Also known as the know-it-all, windbag, show-off, and blowhard is a personality type many of us are all too familiar with, sometimes intimately. From co-workers to friends to family members to spouses, they are easily identified in social situations by more modest members of society, often eliciting eye rolls, head shaking, and complaining to other modest members who get it. Typing "what does bragging mean" into Google's search field provides the following definition: "excessively proud and boastful talk about one's achievements or possessions."  Braggers also monopolize the conversation to steer the dialogue toward themselves as though they were reciting a monologue on Broadway.  They often think they have all the answers to every question and rarely entertain anyone who dares to contradict them.  They have little to no compassion…

Many of us rarely think about our lives in the present. That's because we often go about our days with memories of the past or expectations of the future influencing our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. So being truly thankful for where we are in this moment – grateful for all the blessings right here, right now – is a monumental task. The holiday season between Thanksgiving and the first of the new year can be difficult for many of us. Memories of long-gone holiday traditions, joyous celebrations, and familiar faces, now vacant from our reality, haunt our current existence causing us to struggle to maintain any semblance of positivity. Being thankful for where we are in the present is a challenging concept to adopt. Many often…

As we grow older and wiser, relationships (whether familial, platonic, or romantic) inevitably change – that’s simply a reality of the human experience. Some of those relationships continue to improve and strengthen with time and maturity. In contrast, others seem to wither away from a lack of nurturing. However, it becomes puzzling how to accurately determine if someone still truly values you in their life. Many of us rarely entertain such a question. Understandably, we’re fearful of the answers, which challenge our often skewed perception of reality – of a true, connecting, and binding relationship having taken place. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a chore – a one-sided exercise with little return on your investment. Unfortunately, this often forces you to tolerate a handful of repetitive excuses for one’s inability…