These days, “be authentic” gets tossed around like seasoning. A pinch here, a dash there, suddenly everyone’s an expert. But if authenticity is just “saying whatever I want whenever I want,” then we’ve reinvented rudeness with better branding. Real authenticity is deeper than unfiltered opinions. Psychologists who study it describe authenticity as a meaningful, complicated…
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By now, most of us have made, and quietly broken, our New Year’s resolutions. The gym membership we swore we’d use. The sugar we promised to quit. The planner we bought with the best of intentions… now collecting dust. But what if this year, instead of resolving to fix ourselves, we focused on strengthening our…
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Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…
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The Real You: Authenticity, Genuineness, and the “Why” Behind How We Show Up
These days, “be authentic” gets tossed around like seasoning. A pinch here, a dash there, suddenly everyone’s an expert. But if authenticity is just “saying whatever I want whenever I want,” then we’ve reinvented rudeness with better branding. Real authenticity is deeper than unfiltered opinions. Psychologists who study it describe authenticity as a meaningful, complicated…
New Year, New We: A Different Kind of Resolution
By now, most of us have made, and quietly broken, our New Year’s resolutions. The gym membership we swore we’d use. The sugar we promised to quit. The planner we bought with the best of intentions… now collecting dust. But what if this year, instead of resolving to fix ourselves, we focused on strengthening our…
Loving Your Spouse Through the Unknown
Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…