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Emotional Skills

Giving Up on People Pleasing

The people pleaser needs to learn an unusual and little-mentioned art: that of giving up on people.

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Emotional Skills

The Benefits of Forgetfulness

We are rescued from many of our sorrows not by active solutions or nifty work of the intellect but by our reliable tendencies to forget.

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Cures for Love

Relationships

Cures for Love

‘Cures for Love’ is the title of a self-help book written by the Roman poet Ovid in 2 AD that…
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The Theory of Triangulation

Self-Knowledge

The Theory of Triangulation

‘Triangulation’ is a term used in psychoanalysis to refer to the way in which someone can be drawn to repeatedly…
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How Heartbreak Ends

Relationships

How Heartbreak Ends

Heartbreak is a paradoxical state in which, for a time – very strangely – we take the side of the…
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Ruminating on One’s Ex

Relationships

Ruminating on One’s Ex

We can spend a great deal of time – years, perhaps – wondering why certain people, whom we loved very…
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