On Tuesday afternoon, Pete and I heard some news we didn’t want to hear. I immediately noticed a sinking sensation in my belly, like a huge stone sitting in it. Tightness, heaviness and pain in my stomach. I was noticing…
Two weeks ago I wrote about How to Be an Adult in Relationships and I got this response from Kirsi and she gave me permission to publish it: ”Your newsletter touched me a lot. The most important sentence for me…
Lately I have been reading the book How to be an Adult in Relationships, by David Richo. Some parts of the book I really like and find both useful and inspiring. And parts of it I hate. The book talks…
For the past two weeks, I have been writing about codependency, which can be a triggering and depressing topic, especially if you recognize codependent behaviors in yourself and/or your loved ones. (You can read those texts here.)I had received a request to write…
Last week I wrote about codependency and gave a list of 12 signs of codependent behavior. What thoughts are arising for you right now reading the word codependency? Codependency, which is sometimes called relationship addiction, is an excessive, all-consuming dependency on a specific relationship or sometimes several…
Do you judge yourself to be codependent? Do you tend to focus a lot more on another person rather than yourself?Do you make what they want more important than what you want? Of course we as humans depend and rely on others for support,…
The 19th of November was International Men's Day. [Note: I wrote this a few weeks ago and Pete procrastinated on posting it until now.] Lately, I’ve been thinking about men and the tight boxes and role models that many men…
In Radical Honesty, we often talk about “completion talks” or “honest conversations.” We highly encourage people to complete the unfinished business from their past. Yet, what exactly does this mean? Completing incomplete things from the past is about having conversations…
I’m Tuulia—and I’m a workaholic. Often, upon awaking, I plan to work for just one hour. I begin working and then, four hours later, I find myself still working without even having eaten breakfast. Other times, I decide I’m taking…