Category: Control

Overcoming Codependency: Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships

Overcoming Codependency: Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships

Couple holding hands

“A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.” ~Melody Beattie

From a young age, I felt insecure in my own skin. I was a …

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How to Instantly Calm Yourself in Stressful Situations

How to Instantly Calm Yourself in Stressful Situations

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Victor Frankl

There’s a big lie we tell ourselves during stressful times.

It …

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Know how to wait

A great heart with deep reserves of patience will know how to wait. Never hurry and never give way to your emotions. Master yourself and...

Be diligent and intelligent

Diligence carries out quickly what intelligence lingers over. Fools love to hurry : they take no heed of obstacles and act incautiously. The wise usually fail through hesitation. Fools...