When you sacrifice too much in a relationship How do we determine what a normal amount of sacrifice might be? My impression of most relationships: One partner is more likely to sacrifice in order to hold things together. The risk is that he or she will resent what is...
The Desire for Meaningful Work Does meaningful work take a back seat when you have a family to feed, or bills to pay? A few days back, I got into a contentious conversation with an acquaintance over the concept of “meaningful work.” I suggested, quite innocently, that...
Performance anxiety plagues me, but now I have some techniques to beat it We’ve all been there at one time or another. Performance anxiety can affect anyone. But what about the most extreme anxiety that causes us to choke at the worst possible time? For me, a few days...
Why we need to call out “subtle sexism” Interrupted. Talked over. Silenced. “Subtle sexism” includes behaviours so routine in a woman’s life that we may come to accept them, forgetting how prevalent and damaging they are.Among the most common offenders:...
Why we internalize rejection – is it really a gender issue? None of us likes to hear “no,” or that we don’t make the cut, or that we don’t belong. Rejection hurts. But [Tweet “do women internalize rejection more easily than men?”] Are we hard-wired...
