Wellness Includes Accurate Self-Regard.

For many years, the language of “healing” has dominated conversations about growth. But for many high-functioning professionals, healing isn’t the word that fits. What they’re seeking isn’t recovery from ca...

Reclaiming Confidence Without Losing Belonging

Many professionals—especially those who are conscientious, emotionally intelligent, and relationally attuned—learn early that confidence carries social risk. Being powerful, visible, or certain can trig...

Why people put themselves down and what it’s really protecting. 

Most people recognize arrogance when they see it. But its quieter twin—self-effacement—often goes unnoticed, even admired. The self-effacing person deflects praise, apologizes too quic...

Every organization runs on two levels: what’s visible in the structure and what’s lived in the relationships. Most leaders work tirelessly to fix the visible — processes, communication, roles, accountability — but the real architecture of performance...

You’ve probably noticed it. The raise that once felt life-changing soon feels routine. The promotion you worked years to earn becomes your new baseline. The house, the car, the recognition—what was once extraordinary becomes ordinary, and the expecta...

We often mistake passive behavior for harmlessness. But avoiding conflict doesn’t mean avoiding control. In fact, it can signal a subtler, more corrosive form of control: passive influence.

Indirect communication shows up when someone expresses thei...

Growth is uncomfortable. It disrupts what’s familiar. It shakes our sense of competence. It asks us to stretch into things we haven’t mastered yet.

And if we’re honest, most of us don’t like being bad at things. Especially not in front of others.

 But much of what is labeled as self-awareness is actually self-description. People can articulate their tendencies, reference their attachment style, even recite insights from therapy or coaching. But the deeper question is: how does that awarenes...

The term mankeeping has gained traction as a way to describe the emotional labor women carry in relationships. It’s a provocative phrase, but I worry it oversimplifies something far more complex: the dynamics of agency and responsibility in emotional...

 In leadership and professional environments, projections play out constantly—often subtly, sometimes destructively. These projections—where we unconsciously cast our own unmet needs, fears, or expectations onto others—are not limited to personal r...