I use a travel-size USB-chargeable white noise machine to help me sleep. One odd thing about using it is that I often hear phantom music. Sometimes it's a reggae song, other times a rock guitar solo, a children's song, or a commercial jingle. —...
People pleasing is a sign you are experiencing eldest daughter syndrome, even if you're not the firstborn girl.
Charlotte Cowles, the financial-advice columnist for New York Magazine's The Cut, shared her enthralling story about being scammed out of $50,000 by a man posing as a CIA agent. Here are the first three paragraphs: On a Tuesday evening this past O...
I think every book written by musicians I have read have been straight ahead recollections of their lives from birth to the present. Bonafide biographies. And that's what I expected Rik Emmett's 'Lay It On The Line' to be as well. How wrong I was! Hi...
Breaking the cycle of abuse in a dysfunctional family begins with facing how relatives made you feel. Healing childhood trauma is hard but worth it.
The gray rock method's goal is to get emotionally immature people to lose interest in you. It can work when other boundaries you've set have failed.
Children who experienced parentification as kids were forced to take on the responsibilities of adults, which impacts their ability to set boundaries later on in life.