self-worth
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Why Would a 20-Year-Old Date a 40-Year-Old?
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My Husband Is Gay: What Do You Do When Marriage Reveals a Truth Nobody Prepared You For?
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Why We Chase People Who Do Not Want Us
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The Night Brain Lie: How to Survive the Feeling That Life Is Not Worth It
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Valentine’s Day 2026 in India: The Psychology of Love in a Loud World
Valentine’s Day 2026 in India will arrive with the same familiar props: red roses, restaurant surge pricing, and Instagram couples performing joy like it is a competitive sport. Yet, each year, I notice something more interesting than the flowers. The day does not merely celebrate love. It exposes our relationship with love. That difference matters.…
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Loneliness Makes You Choose People You Wouldn’t Choose Otherwise
I have watched it happen in coaching rooms and cafés, and in the quiet glow of late-night messaging. A smart, discerning person meets someone who is simply available. Not kind. Not steady. Just there. And in a season of loneliness, “there” can look like “destiny”. This is the heart of loneliness relationship choices. Loneliness is…
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Love as compliance: Unlearning the childhood rule that still runs your relationships
Love as compliance is a particular kind of adulthood where you can read the room like a weather report. You sense a sigh from across the table, detect a pause on a phone call, and immediately begin the ancient ritual: correcting yourself before anyone asks. In coaching rooms, I meet them every week. High-functioning, high-capacity,…
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The overachiever’s secret panic: when doing more is how you survive
I meet them in coaching rooms all the time. People who do not fall apart. They optimise. This high-functioning trauma response can look like ambition on the outside, and feel like quiet survival on the inside. They arrive on time, reply fast, remember everything, and handle crises with the calm of an air-traffic controller. Their…
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The Good-Girl Contract: How peacekeeping becomes self-abandonment
There is a particular kind of woman I meet often in coaching rooms, one quietly shaped by the Good-girl contract. She is competent, warm, high-performing, and deeply tired. She speaks with care, edits herself mid-sentence, and apologises when she has done nothing wrong. She is the glue in her family, the stabiliser in her workplace,…
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The Psychology of Revenge Sex: Power, Pain, and the Lie That It Heals
