We often spend our days doing everything but that difficult thing we're dreading to do.

This happens because we're trying to protect ourselves from uncertainty. We don’t want to feel like we don’t know what we’re doing, to look stupid or to to feel overwhelmed.

When we experience negative things it is important we lean on social support because most of the time our friends are better at regulating our emotions rather than ourselves.

We then feel supported, heard, and less alone. Sometimes we find it hard to believe ourselves the...

• We resent the person who comes in and tries to boss us around. This is because we are independent, self-sufficient people. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.
• Yet if someone says something we disagree with, something inside us tells us we have to argue with them.
• We wo...