Pleasing others and the ramifications.
People Pleasing.
The secretive nature behind sexual desires.
Sexuality and taboos about what people really like and want.
Gender in Native American culture. Could we learn something?
Gender isn’t binary.
Comparing can cause harm.
Comparing yourself to others
Feel like a misfit?
Feeling like a misfit is a lonely place. Great ted talk about feeling like you don’t fit, coming from hardship and working through the shame that causes us to get in our own way.
Pain pill epidemic.
Doctors and Drug Dealers. How different are they? Are doctors the new drug dealers? Controlled substances really aren’t different from street drugs. Pain pills have the same chemical structure as heroin.
How to help someone who is grieving?
Grieving…platitudes and trite responses are not helpful.
Niceness as a defense.
Is being nice also kind?
Trauma and abuse
Verbal Abuse. Research says that it can be worse than physical abuse.