Building Emotional Strength
There’s a particular kind of woman who keeps being called strong by the people around her. They mean it as a compliment. They notice that she handles a lot. They notice that she doesn’t fall apart. They notice that when something hard happens, she finds a way to keep going. The label gets attached to […]
Emotional Detachment Techniques
There’s a misconception about emotional detachment that keeps a lot of women from actually building it. The misconception is that detaching emotionally means becoming cold. That you’ve successfully detached when you no longer care, no longer feel, no longer let anyone get to you. The detached woman in this version is closed off, hardened, immune […]
How to Stop Emotional Attachment
There’s a particular kind of stuck that happens after a person leaves your life and stays, somehow, in your head. The phone has gone silent for weeks. The relationship is technically over. By any external measure, you’ve moved on. But internally, he’s still everywhere. In the song that came on at the coffee shop. In […]