Short messages on Relationships issues from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
Listen to your Mother - LA by Lisa Sjolund
“Empathy” is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, experiencing how they are feeling from their perspective.
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Ask yourself, in what pictures do you want to fit? You are a perfect fit for many people and many situations, where your best is enough.
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See yourself as a piece of a puzzle. With some people you will be a perfect fit, with others you will never fit no matter how hard you try. You’re a perfect fit in one or more pictures, but not in all the pictures – and this is okay and normal!
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Helping a friend by Rebecca Osborne
Even if you make a mistake, there are ways to apologise and make amends. Don’t make yourself feel like a screw up, it’s just that you didn’t make the right choice that time.
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Jealousy by Luke Saagi
People are not mind readers. They won’t know you’re struggling, or how you feel, unless you speak to them about it, clearly and unambiguously so there’s no room for confusion.
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving by BK
“There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.” – Henry Drummond
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What is a friend by your definition and not by Facebook’s or other social media? Don’t be afraid to call a friend a friend and an online acquaintance an online acquaintance.
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Consider what you’d rather be doing than pretending to like someone else’s Facebook updates. Channel your energies into doing those other things by making a plan to do them instead of giving the time to social media.
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By reducing the number of ‘friends’ in your social media environment, you make more time for those you actively engage with, and can have more fruitful, enjoyable interactions.
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“Facebook friends” are not automatically “friend friends”. Make use of both terms with great care, so that you’re being discerning in your own mind about which is which.
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