If you fight so hard to get love from others, then you sacrifice your actual ‘self’ and feel unloved when your own needs are ...

Once upon a Drag Race episode, RuPaul asked a seemingly simple question: 'If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?' That now-iconic sign-off resonated with ...

We all wear various masks to conceal ourselves. If you’ve ever greeted a neighbor you’d rather not talk to, you know exactly what I mean. You smile even though you don’t feel like smiling. You may ask ...

Taking time to enumerate nice things about yourself each day may sound terminally conceited, but in practice the results can be pretty transformative. By Melissa Kirsch I want to be a person with ...

Falling in love is as natural as sleep. Staying in love is as natural as regular exercise and a healthy diet. We can eat and exercise healthfully, and we can love well in the short run, but over the ...

Attachment is often rooted in fear: fear of abandonment, of loneliness, of not being enough. It can manifest as control, jealousy, or the urge to make someone responsible for our happiness. Love, in ...