TRANSACTIONAL LOVE - HOW IS CONDITIONAL RELATING AFFECTING OUR ABILITY TO LOVE OURSELVES
What is transactional love? Discern true love and its clear advantages!
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I applaud you for making the effort in searching for the truth. It takes a great amount of courage and energy to say 'enough is enough' and go against your usual behaviour. Therefore I won't keep you any longer! My articles are 100% ad free and are a collection of my inner most realisations about love, relationships, life and happiness, put together for you to make sense of your own journey.
Michaela Patel
- May 3
- 5 min
HOW DOES EMOTIONAL NEGLECT SHOW UP IN RELATIONSHIPS?
What is childhood emotional neglect and how does it affect your ability to find a compatible partner?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 6 min
COVERT AGGRESSION 2
What is covert abuse and why are we prone to enmeshment with manipulative, controlling partners?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 5 min
ADMIRE THYSELF - WHY IS SELF-VALIDATION VITAL TO OUR HAPPINESS
Why is self-validation important to our happiness?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 4 min
TOUGHEN YOUR CORE - NURTURE YOU
All actions ever taken by humans point either towards love, or the lack of it. The latter leads to hurt rollover for many generations and...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 5 min
MIND-THE-GAP - THE WAY OUT OF THE MIND'S MANY RABBIT HOLES
Are you stuck in a self-defeating cycle of thinking? The truth is, most of us are... 'Paranoia and self-loathing is like an imaginary dog...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 6 min
CONTROLLING RELATIONSHIPS - HOW TO DEAL WITH BULLIES
How does control and abuse come about? Restore your sanity and rescue your happiness!
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
PATRIARCHY HANDCUFFS - WHY IS PATRIARCHY BAD FOR EVERYONE
Why is patriarchy bad for everyone?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 4 min
WOBBLY PARENTING - THE COMMON MISTAKES OF PARENTING AND HOW THEY SHAPE OUR CHILDREN
I am a loving, deeply caring, for most parts aware parent who every so often feels like total failure... Any truly responsible parent...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
THE POWER OF SEXY - HOW DO WE UNCONSCIOUSLY DEVALUE OURSELVES?
Why is being sexy so important to us? With the summer in full swing, the layers are coming off whilst the pressure to look hot is on. We...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
FLIRTING - THE GAME WITH A PLAN
Lets kick off this New Year with an almost ancient, nevertheless, ever-interesting topic which affects us all. Examining our hidden...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
WHAT YOU REALLY WANT - HOW IS COPYING OTHERS MAKING US SUFFER
Why is it important to stop and re-evaluate our priorities? Why do we end up juggling so much? Can we ever achieve an inner freedom?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
YOUR EMOTIONAL BODY
Why is it important to acknowledge and care for our emotional body?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
ARE YOU INSECURE?
How and why do we distort the perception of ourselves for the worse?
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
THE JAR OF HEARTS 1 - WHY DO WE FEEL EMPTY?
Imagine your heart as a glass jar. It is filled with sweets. Love hearts if you like. Your jar is full to the brim and it is hard to keep...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
WHY EMPATHS CARRY DRAMA? 1
Us empaths, we are highly tuned to the EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE of our environment. And because we are so emotionally sensitive, we are drawn...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
THE SELFISHNESS OF SAYING 'NO'
Why do we find it hard to say 'NO' to others? In short, the answer is: Because saying 'YES' is our forte. Having practiced the same since...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 2 min
DO YOU DESERVE RESPECT?
Who doesn't like to be respected? But what IS respect and can we earn respect by reaching certain age or status? In the FALSE world of...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 4 min
PRICELESS RELATIONSHIP LESSONS
What have my past relationships taught me? That every person I engaged with was a reflection of where I was in life AT THAT POINT in...
Michaela Patel
- Mar 30
- 3 min
MIND'S FOOL
Every bit of information we receive from the outside world gets filed away. Stored in our mind's library of beliefs it changes our...
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