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May 12, 2025
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Joan Herrmann
When You're An Option, Not A Priority: Choosing ...

Being made an option when you’ve given someone your heart — whether in friendship, family, or love — cuts deeply. It evokes feelings of confusion, rejection, and even self-doubt. You start questioning your worth, wondering if you expected too much, or worse, if you’re just too much.

April 30, 2025
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Joan Herrmann
How Trauma Bonds Impact Relationships and What ...

A trauma bond is a deep emotional attachment that forms between a person and their abuser, typically as a result of repeated cycles of abuse and intermittent reinforcement. It is a psychological response to intense, often manipulative emotional experiences that create confusion, loyalty, and dependency — even in the face of harm. Unlike healthy attachment, trauma bonding is rooted in fear, shame, and control rather than trust, safety, and mutual respect. This type of bond can be especially difficult to recognize and break, as the relationship often swings between periods of intense connection and episodes of abuse or neglect.

April 24, 2025
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Joan Herrmann
Why People Act Like They Don't Care — What to ...

It’s one of the most painful feelings in the world: wondering if the people you care about care about you in return. Maybe they don’t say “I love you” often. Maybe they don’t check in as much as you’d like. Maybe they feel distant, distracted, or emotionally unavailable. Whatever the reason, when someone doesn’t show they care in the ways you need, it can leave you feeling confused, hurt, and alone. But here’s the truth: not everyone knows how to show love — and their silence doesn’t always mean they don’t care.

April 8, 2025
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Joan Herrmann
Dating Later in Life: Challenges, Changes, and ...

Re-entering the dating world later in life can be both exciting and overwhelming. For many, the experience brings a mix of emotions — hope, anxiety, self-doubt, and even frustration. The dating landscape has changed drastically (and that’s an understatement), and the confidence once felt in youth may now be replaced with feelings of inadequacy or fear of rejection. However, despite these challenges, later in life dating can also be an opportunity for growth, self-discovery, and yes, even love.

April 5, 2025
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Joan Herrmann
Four Strategies To Help You Grow From A ...

There is an old adage: breaking up is hard to do. Most of us at one time or another have suffered the pain of a broken heart. While we know that hearts don’t literally break, it can be hard to believe that’s true when a relationship has ended. It feels like the place that was once filled with love has been shattered to pieces.

Joan Herrmann
May 2, 2022
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Navigating Uncertain Times: 7 Strategies to Help You Stay on Course

Joan Herrmann
May 2, 2022
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What may be a “tragedy” to one person, is nothing more than a “bump in the road” to another.

Joan Herrmann
April 27, 2022
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Learn To See The Value In What You Have

Joan Herrmann
April 27, 2022
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While it is true that we have more conveniences and opportunities than our parents and grandparents, I believe our ancestors had something that many of us lack – the ability to attach to and appreciate what they had.

CYACYL
April 26, 2022
From The Magazine

First Steps for Dismantling Fear

CYACYL
April 26, 2022
From The Magazine

Are you afraid of some condition in your life? Here's a life-transforming secret: that seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful.

CYACYL
April 19, 2022
From The Magazine

Cure the Paper Plague

CYACYL
April 19, 2022
From The Magazine

Even in our “paperless” society, we receive over 120 billion pieces of mail each year in the United States. If you find it challenging to deal with the paper in your life, you’re completely justified in your distress.

Tagged: organizing

Joan Herrmann
April 12, 2022
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It’s Time to Face Your Fears: 4 Steps to Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone

Joan Herrmann
April 12, 2022
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Do you allow fear to stop you dead in your tracks whenever you think about trying something new? Does that voice in your head conjure up a list of reasons to be inactive, why you shouldn’t try to accomplish a goal?

CYACYL
April 12, 2022
From The Magazine

Tips for Transitioning Back into the Office

CYACYL
April 12, 2022
From The Magazine

Many people who have never worked from home found themselves learning to adapt to the “new normal” of not being in the office. Now, many employers are requiring employees to go back to their office part-time or full-time. This transition has understandably created significant unwelcomed stress and anxiety.

CYACYL
March 8, 2022
From The Magazine

Reclaim Your Home Office

CYACYL
March 8, 2022
From The Magazine

Are you in the throes of work-at-home fatigue, sick and tired of the kitchen table doing triple duty, surrounded by the constant buzz of a noisy household?

Tagged: organizing

CYACYL
March 1, 2022
From The Magazine

Mind Power Weight Loss

CYACYL
March 1, 2022
From The Magazine

Suggestion with repetition can place the images that lead to success, front and center in your mind, ahead of any voice of doubt or self-sabotage that wants to creep in.

CYACYL
February 22, 2022
From The Magazine

Lost Love

CYACYL
February 22, 2022
From The Magazine

What makes this particular microbe so important is that, when restored, it takes up residence in the entire length of human GI tract, then sends a signal to the brain to release the hormone oxytocin, the hormone of love, affection, and empathy.

Joan Herrmann
February 21, 2022
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We Need To Talk: A Conversation with Celeste Headlee

Joan Herrmann
February 21, 2022
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When technology is our primary means of communication, conversational skills, connection, and intimacy become a thing of the past and we risk losing much of what makes our society work. We lose the authentic human connection that we need in order to experience empathy, compassion, and creativity.

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