If you are an overachiever that’s tired of feeling burnt out and exhausted, you need to understand that the way to stop people pleasing and how to find a partner who will carry his half of the bargain is in looking at the danger of overacheiving.

This is a question I ask myself, and often clients, fairly regularly. But before we dive in too deep on it, let's clarify one thing: there's a helpful and unhelpful kind of safe. The helpful kind of safe is more like “supported.”

If you want to be confident, at some point we have to accept that we will face hard things in life. Setting expectations of what things feel like will help us feel more confident when we face the inevitable challenges.

Some in-depth, honest reflections as I ease back into business as usual after taking a week.

This was something that had been explained to me over and over again but now I was living it in real life. It was my freshman year at Yale University. We were all living in buildings that looked like castles, navigating living away from home for the first time, looking around eagerly at the people who people had said may be “friends you'll have for the rest of your lives.” And all around us hung a question: What made each of us good enough to be accepted here?

But here's the thing we need to talk about: the idea that transformation requires some external magic - whether that's the perfect partner, the right opportunity, or even the ideal self-help program - is actually what's keeping you stuck. Which is why today we're diving into why you already have everything you need to create the confidence, dating success, and career fulfillment you're craving, with a little fairytale storytelling along the way!

When you're in the early stages of dating (we're talking dates 1-5), do you find yourself constantly analyzing the text conversation, thinking in great detail on the right thing to say, how frequently to text, etc.?

Dating is not a test to pass. Why does dating seem to be such a kryptonite for the confidence of high-achieving women?

Nobody wants to give bad relationship advice but sometimes, we can be speaking from our current feelings - good or bad. So we're going to do a quick recap of dating and relationship advice to stop giving and what to say instead.

While solo travel can help you get comfortable being alone, its most powerful benefit is learning to be comfortable with being challenged. And in this way, my philosophy toward solo travel and dating converge.

Dating is emotional. Sometimes we react to things that trigger us in ways that we aren’t the proudest of. Finding ways to be mindful, through regular practices or using tools in the moment, is a great way to increase that space between the trigger and the response so we can make better decisions.

I've asked myself, "Are my standards too high?" and "Did they just get lucky?" I've compared myself to friends, wondering what was different about them that maybe I should strive more to be. I wondered if maybe it was my tactics…

It's natural to sometimes take a break from your dating life. But some breaks are more helpful than others. Click to read a some dating advice for single women on the types of dating breaks and how to make sure you're getting the most out of your time away from dating.

Just because we are striving to improve doesn’t mean that everything in our lives is magically better and we know how to make negative thoughts disappear. I took a good look at the harder parts and behind-the-scenes at this stage of my journey.

Whether or not you’re into self help books, there are always books out there that can give you new perspective and force you learn something about yourself. I collected a list of my favorites for self-development, I wanted to share with you…

Every piece of work we do to understand our mind and have a healthier relationship with ourselves is building our habits for the future. But as I have been spending more energy on this task, one of the first things I struggled to wrap my head around was "What does growth even look like?"