Tag: mental-health
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Bedwell Bayfront Park’s Great Spirit Path in Menlo Park, California
By Rachel Puryear You’ve probably heard of Stonehenge in the English countryside – but have you also heard of the Bay Area’s “Stonehenge by the Bay”? Bedwell Bayfront Park features the Great Spirit Path, also known as Stonehenge by the Bay, where you can get a great hike with amazing views, while also seeing stone…
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Taylor Mountain Regional Park in Santa Rosa, California
By Rachel Puryear California’s Sonoma County offers a famously diverse array of beautiful landscapes. Within one set of county lines, you can visit beaches, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, and more. The area also offers plenty of wonderful parks to explore. One lovely such mountainous park is at Taylor Mountain. If you’re ever in the area,…
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Asking for Help is Great – But is There Also an Obligation to Offer It?
By Rachel Puryear We all know that it’s very helpful to ask for help. It lets others know what we need when they might otherwise have no idea, and it gives us a chance to practice being assertive. Certainly, people should ask for help more often – and many don’t, quite to their own detriment.…
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Emotional Black Holes
By Rachel Puryear We’ve all heard about black holes in outer space, and probably marveled at how dangerous they could be – with their gravity being so strong that nothing can escape them. However, luckily, you will probably never actually encounter a black hole in outer space. What you’re much more likely to encounter right…
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Signs of Emotional Maturity (or a Lack Thereof)
By Rachel Puryear When it comes to all kinds of interpersonal relationships – be they romantic, friendships, familial, business, or otherwise – the difference between closeness with an emotionally mature person, versus an emotionally immature person; is profound, and like night and day. Accordingly, it’s important to be able to spot signs of emotional maturity…
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Every Bully Needs Enablers
Rachel Puryear Nobody in their right mind likes a bully. Yet, bullies get their way far too often in everyday life, and feel entitled to do so – typically enjoying an undeserved, and elevated social status. So how do they get away with that, and only rarely face consequences for their bad behavior? Especially when…
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Who are Highly Sensitive (Empathic) People Compatible With?
By Rachel Puryear We often hear about relationship red flags, and toxic types of people to avoid. There’s good reason for the popularity of this subject, as bad relationships can bring so much misery and pain – and could be harder to get out of than into. However, we still don’t focus enough attention on…
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Trauma Bonding in Relationships
By Rachel Puryear Ideally, we would all only fall in love with people who love us back, and who want to treat us well. Unfortunately, that’s so often not the case – people fall in love all the time with people who don’t care about them, who abuse and mistreat them in all kinds of…
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Toxic People Versus Toxic Relationships
By Rachel Puryear The subject of toxic people – and toxic relationships – is always a popular one. That’s because a toxic person can bring a great deal of pain, leave paths of devastation, and wreak havoc in so many other people’s lives so quickly. Meanwhile, a toxic relationship can bring so much misery and…
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Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seekers are Anything But Conventional
By Rachel Puryear In case you missed it, I’ve written here before about highly sensitive (empathic) people who are also high sensation seeking (abbreviated HSS/HSP) – as well as types of activities they likely tend to enjoy. In short; these awesome folks tend to have deep empathy, heightened awareness of their environment and what’s going…
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Empathic, Highly Sensitive People and Dissociation
By Rachel Puryear One defining feature of highly sensitive and empathic people, in the minds of the public, is that they are highly emotive and feel deeply. There is good reason for that perception – there’s a lot of truth in it. However, does that mean that a person who doesn’t seem highly emotive –…
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Can You Really Not Love Others, or Be Loved, Until You Love Yourself?
By Rachel Puryear There’s a modern adage which says that in order to love someone else, you must first love yourself. There’s also another one that says in order to be loved by others, you also must first love yourself. But are these words of wisdom really true? Well, they’re rooted in a deep truth…
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Recognizing Covert Narcissism
By Rachel Puryear Narcissism, and what it’s like dealing with people who have narcissistic personalities, is a hot topic these days. Anyone who’s ever fallen in love with a toxic narcissist, befriended one, or was raised by one; will never forget – those who get away quickly will be shaken, and those who were trapped…
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