Personal Skills

Who you are when nobody’s watching is who you are when the masks are stripped and cast aside, when the chilling question hits you: What am I supposed to do with myself? We spend most of our lives defining ourselves as professionals, partners, parents, or friends. We hear that being different is important, so we … Read more

One night after coming home from the gym, I told my husband that I was exhausted and he said “you know, it doesn’t matter how much you take care of your physical well-being. If you neglect your mental health, you will feel like sh*t more often than you want to.” And it got me thinking, … Read more

There are a lot of factors that determine our success, some of which are completely out of our control. The number one factor in determining how successful we are, though, is completely within our own control – attitude. Saying that attitude is everything is more than a feel-good quote out of a self-help book or … Read more

Self-esteem is a very intimate subject for many, including myself. Growing up in a culture where physical beauty defines how your future is going to turn out, I was considered a failure the day I was born. There wasn’t a lot of encouraging words from my mom, so you can guess how low my self-esteem … Read more

The founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud once remarked that “Words have magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s … Read more

At 23, I remembered being so unhappy with everything, even with the things I once loved. I stopped socializing and always finding excuses not to step out of the house and I thought it would go away because no one can be happy every minute of the day. What made it worse was that I … Read more

Causes of low self-esteem can be recognized and low self-esteem can be unlearned. A lack of self-esteem is a corrosive force, eroding our confidence and inevitably causing major harm to our ability to form lasting, loving and healthy relationships. Some of us wear our self-esteem lightly, untroubled by self-doubt or life’s changes. Others strap their … Read more