I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be strong, lately. Not in the physical sense, but what it means to be emotionally and mentally strong. The idea that people today — men especially — are “weaker” or “can’t handle it” is tossed around with gleeful abandon. In fact, the underlying conflict of Cobra…
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How To Build Emotional Strength
Right now everything feels like chaos. We’re living through the worst pandemic the world has seen in more than 100 years. We are less than three weeks out from an election that feels like our choice is whether to pull America back from the brink of fascism or not. Our lives have been thrown into…
Episode #142 — The 5 Things You Need To Get Your Life Together
How happy are you with your life right now? If you’re like most people, you probably have a list of major changes you’ve wanted to make. You may even have looked at the current pandemic as your chance to work on yourself and get your life where you want it to be. Now tell me,…
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How Do I Find The Strength To Fix My Broken Life?
Dear Dr. NerdLove, I am 46 years old. When I was 35, my husband and I had a terrible divorce with custody battle. I won, but I had to give up my dreams of moving home to another state as a condition of custody. I put everything on hold to care for them, including a…
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How To Improve Your Willpower
Every year we go through a familiar ritual that culminates with a failure of willpower. Everyone makes promises about how they’re going to do something better in the new year and then promptly forgets all about it before the month is even over. In fact, right now, I’m watching the usual influx of New Years…
5 Simple Ways To Jumpstart Your Life
One of the hardest things about self-improvement, especially when you’re trying to fix your dating life, is feeling like you’re getting nowhere. Now to be fair, change takes time and more often than not, you’re trying to overcome the habits of a lifetime… but that’s cold comfort when you can see that new life waiting…