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How to Tell If What You’re Feeling Is Limerence, Not Love?

Limerence is often mistaken for love—but they are fundamentally different experiences. Limerence is an intense, obsessive infatuation with someone, often rooted in fantasy, uncertainty, and emotional hunger. Love, on the other hand, is built on connection, reality, safety, and choice. If you’re caught in a cycle of longing, anxiety, or emotional highs and lows around […]

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Social Media and Body Image: How to Protect Your Self-Worth Online?

Body Image / Hadiah

Social media can be inspiring — but it can also quietly tear down your self-worth, especially when it comes to body image. With every scroll, you’re bombarded with filtered selfies, “what I eat in a day” videos, workout routines, and body transformation posts. Even when you know it’s curated, it can still feel like you’re

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How to Practice Body Neutrality When You Don’t Feel Body Positive?

Body Image / Hadiah

You don’t have to love your body to treat it with respect. That’s the heart of body neutrality — a compassionate middle ground between body hate and body positivity. On the days when “love your body” feels impossible or fake, body neutrality says: You don’t have to love it — you just have to care

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How to Cope with ‘Bad Body Image Days’ Without Spiraling?

Body Image / Hadiah

We all have days when our bodies feel “off.” Clothes fit weird. Mirrors feel cruel. Thoughts spiral. For those with body image struggles, these days can feel overwhelming — triggering shame, isolation, and even harmful behaviors. But a bad body image day doesn’t have to become a bad mental health day. You can learn to

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Why People With BPD Push People Away (Even When They Love Them)

BPD / Hadiah

One of the most painful and confusing patterns in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is this: loving someone deeply — and still pushing them away. If you live with BPD, you may know this cycle well. You want closeness, crave connection, even fear abandonment… and yet when someone gets too close, you might start an argument,

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How to Set Healthy Boundaries with Someone Who Has BPD?

BPD / Hadiah

Setting boundaries with someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can feel like walking on eggshells — especially when emotional intensity, fear of abandonment, and black-and-white thinking are part of the dynamic. But boundaries are not barriers. They’re bridges to healthier relationships, offering both safety and clarity for everyone involved. When done with empathy and

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