Tag: life
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Why They Won’t Let You Go: Understanding Manipulation in Toxic Relationships
Both in groups of people who have separated and in therapy sessions, I have observed a pattern that repeats itself regularly, so it is worth talking about. There are some people who use other people to satisfy their own needs. I won’t focus on the classification here, but in therapy, the question “Why won’t he…
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Trauma Isn’t the End — It’s the Beginning of the Return
For many years, I believed that what happened to me in childhood defined me. That the silence, the responsibility, the fear I carried were proof of something broken inside me. But slowly, through deep work, I came to understand something else: Trauma isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of the return. As…
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The Intuitive Type or INFJ
The Intuitive Type (according to Jung) or INFJ (Myers & Briggs) personality type lives in a world governed by synchronicity, signs, and symbols.They often find it difficult to integrate into a society that values external expressions more than internal experiences. As one of the rarest personality types, INFJs frequently feel different from others. Their minds…
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“No matter what winds blow, they will all pass!”
The Latvian people’s unique survival instinct is especially evident in times like these. When I hear about the fate of other nations disappearing, I always wonder—how have Latvians managed to endure? We have never had a strong and selfless “friend” reaching out to help us in difficult times—quite the opposite, in fact. We have always…
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Life Hasn’t Stopped: A Moment for Reflection and Self-Care
Subscriber Content We have all arrived at a point where we are forced to face ourselves and our real—not idealized—relationships. Many people are currently dealing with frustration due to the inability to realize everything they had hoped for. I understand the anxiety—I, too, was worried and stressed when I realized that my entire life and…
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