By Andrea Brandt — 2019
Structure and community are things you may be surprised to miss.
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If you ever find yourself thinking “I don’t know who I am,” you might wonder why you might feel this way and what you can do to change that.
An identity crisis is a developmental event that involves a person questioning their sense of self or place in the world.
Whether you’re questioning your identity or just haven’t taken the time to develop your own identity to begin with, getting to know you is an important part of living a full and happy life. Here are some helpful tips to get to know yourself.
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Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
Selfhood and relationships are the two poles of one single fact. Birth demands of us that we come to know ourselves, what we are. But it calls upon us also to seek to discover the why of our existence; this discovery can never come to us fully except through human relationships.
Everything in our lives reflects where we are in the process of developing integration and balance.
Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.
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This new phase of your life can be a little difficult to navigate at first.
What’s the key to a smooth retirement? Tend to your psychological portfolio as much as your financial one, researchers say.
As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.