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How I Overcame Sexual Addiction
"My name is Jordan, and I'm a sex addict."
As soon as the words left my mouth, I felt like a total impostor.
The men and women seated around me, legs crossed and arms folded, draped over orange plastic chairs, would see right through me any second now. Even though I was staring down at the floor, I...
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How I Healed My Relationship With Men
For the majority of my life, I have largely distrusted men.
Being raised in the 1980’s and 90’s when third wave feminism was starting up and gaining momentum, I received a heavy dose of “This is how men are currently damaging the world” during my childhood conditioning. As a reaction to this...
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How To Develop Courage
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
– Dale Carnegie
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On February 7th, 2013, I was booked to hop on a plane headed to Southeast Asia.
At this point...
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No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Book Review
“You have to check out this book No More Mr. Nice Guy. It’s like the author has been following us around for the last thirty years and totally has us pegged.“
When my friend Mike told me about this book, I thought that the title seemed a little bit ridiculous.
Was I about to learn how to be an asshole?...
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How To Manage Stress (or How I Weathered My Shit Storm Of A Year)
What do you think of when you hear the word stress?
A business person with clenched fists? A shy person anxiously walking out on stage to give a presentation? A Wall street day-trader with veins bulging on their forehead?
My relationship to and understanding of stress shifted this year. I had always...
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How To Fully Release Difficult Emotions That Hold You Back
Do your emotions wreak havoc on your life?
If you've lived for more than a decade or two, chances are there are some deeply buried emotions inside of you that hold you back in your life.
You may not be consciously aware of these stuck emotions on a daily basis… but they are clogging you up and robbing...
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The Intentional Life Ep.6: Mastering Self-Love with Ruby Fremon
On today's episode, Ruby Fremon and I discuss all things self-love.
We talk about her difficult past, the turning point that snapped her out of her life-funk, what her pathway to self-love looked like, and her unique philosophy on what it is that actually makes us more self-loving.
Ruby and I's...
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The Single Most Damaging Thing I Learned As A Pickup Artist
From 2009-2012 I worked as a pickup artist.
Technically, it was a milder version of pickup. We taught social skills (conversational agility, eye contact, humour, body language, etc.) to people with some level of social anxiety but it was almost always within the context of approaching and dating women.
And...
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4 Reasons Not To Kill Yourself (Read This First)
If you're searching for reasons not to kill yourself, then you would be doing me the greatest possible service by reading this article. Please. Read this. It's short, and it will help. I promise.
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“I have wanted to kill myself, every day, for the last three months. I’m only holding...
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Sometimes Seeds Get Planted In Our Heads
Growing up, in my earliest years, my sister was like a second mom to me.
She would carry me around, tie my shoes, and play games with me endlessly.
At a certain age, my older brother decided that I was annoying and he started to tease me behind my parents backs. My sister, understandably not wanting...
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