Learning To Love Yourself And Your Body
Myers says that we can locate virtues inside our bodies. For example, she houses courage in her diaphragm. That's where she goes to find the energy to do a handstand in Yoga.
Myers says that we can locate virtues inside our bodies. For example, she houses courage in her diaphragm. That's where she goes to find the energy to do a handstand in Yoga.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
As a perfectionist, you think of perfection as a state. As you clean your kitchen or your car or your desk, you fantasize about preserving the state of perfection that you have accomplished.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
The challenge is to embrace the inevitable, unstoppable stream of life and to flow with it rather than try to swim against it.
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Leadership expert, triathlete and mother of quadruplets, twins and three other children, DeeDee Myers is never without lipstick in her purse. She's always prepared, always presentable, no matter what.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
To admit our part in emotional and educational and political violence, through our modeling of hatred and righteousness or through our passivity, we would have to begin to turn the notion of perfectionism on its head.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living
While I have nothing against cool clothes, exercise, and health drinks, let's get one thing straight: perfection is something that exists inside us, never from the outside.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
Ask yourself: What am I hungering for? What am I chasing: perfection, approval, certainty, validation?
Hillary Rettig | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
Productive people write without much distraction. They don't, for instance, stop to check their emails or text messages every few words or paragraphs
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Do you have a body part that you absolutely hate and sometimes feel ashamed of? Are you constantly finding ways to cover it up or hide it?
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
To function as a society, and to function in a society, we have to play this game of comparisons. This game is useful but fundamentally absurd. After all, how do you compare apples to oranges?
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
When you and I look at one and the same object of reality, say a hat, and you think it is great looking and I think it's heinous, the only thing that both of us can agree on is that "it is what it is."
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
I am examined, scrutinized and commented upon. "I didn't have lines like those on my lips when I was your age," my mother says in the bright lights of her marble bathroom.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
I'm not so sure about throwing the perfect overboard. I keep wondering how can we ever know what really is essential unless we first know what the perfect looks like?
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
This superficially focused yet deeply-ingrained striving for some unattainable, deprivation-based goal can easily overcome a good life, and swallow it whole. And those feelings can turn deadly for some of us, or at the very least, consistently ruin our days.
Therese Borchard | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
I've been "mastering" my perfectionism problem this summer, as contradictory as that statement sounds. I joined a Masters swimming program knowing fu...
Wes Isley | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
I repeatedly ask myself this question, and so should you: Is your dream more important than your fear of failure?
Wes Isley | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Sure, we have to be responsible parents and adults, pay our bills and such. But if something brings you joy, why not incorporate it into your life?
Wes Isley | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
While we can't always control what life throws at us, we can control how we react -- and that's the key to unlocking joy.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living
Two of my happiness-project resolutions are Enjoy the fun of failure and Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I'm a perfectionist. I hate...
Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
How incredible it is that in a split second, we can shift our mindset from negative to positive. I work to overcome the feeling of being "not good enough" by using the following strategies.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living
I have a very hard time being criticized, corrected, or accused - even of the smallest mistakes - and I react very angrily. I've wrestled this instinc...
Jane Shure | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living
So often, daughters and sons blame themselves for the unknown tragedies in their parents' childhoods. Often without awareness, they seek to transform their parent's sadness.
New York Times | BENEDICT CAREY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Yet several recent studies stand as a warning against taking the platitudes of achievement too seriously. The new research focuses on a familiar type,...
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living