Nancy Colier
Medium
New York, NY, United States
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When You’re in a Relationship With a Martyr
Somewhere in your life, there’s probably a martyr martyring themself right now. → Read More
Freeing Yourself from Your Partner’s Behavior
I recently wrote an article about a client who enjoys her marriage and who also struggles with her partner’s angry outbursts. The article garnered some fierce criticism. To recap: After many years of… → Read More
How Long Should You Wait for Your Partner to Commit?
... and how to stop judging and blaming yourself for needing what you desire. → Read More
You Can't Change Someone Else. But You Can Do This.
Freedom from the whole blaming/changing the other cycle, ironically, comes from moving our attention away from the other and turning that attention onto ourselves! → Read More
When You're in Relationship With a Blamer
What you can learn from the most challenging people in your life. → Read More
Are You a Blamer? How to Break the Blaming Habit.
Knowing who is to blame (and blaming them) will not make you happier or change your life! → Read More
Would You Rather Be Right or Be Real? Letting Go of Our Obsession With Rightness
Refrain from feeding your mind's case for your rightness and others' wrongness; turn away from the thoughts that habitually defend and explain your version of truth. Instead of diving into your mind's narrative and returning to engage in your defense... → Read More
Have You Lost Your Child to a Smartphone?
I write a lot about personal technology and invariably, every time I do, I receive a similar comment in return. The comment, boiled down, is this: Technology is here to stay; get over it or learn to live with it.... → Read More
Has Personal Technology Killed the Mystery of Travel?
Technology has changed the experience of traveling. With personal devices now our constant companions, the best parts of traveling have disappeared. Rest assured what's been lost is not that we no longer wear ties and skirts on airplanes and wear s... → Read More
Why We Hold Onto Grudges, and How to Let Them Go
Why do we hold grudges when they are in fact quite painful to maintain, and often seem to work against what we really want?... → Read More
Burnt Paws and Broken Spirits: What Happens When the Circus Lights Go Out?
How is it that we can believe we have the right to misuse these magnificent and wise wild creatures for the purposes of entertainment and profit, without any consideration or empathy for their wellbeing?... → Read More
Waiting for Nothing: Loving Yourself on Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day coming, love is the topic of the moment. When we think about love, we generally think in terms of who loves us and whom we love, both of which refer to others. But what if Valentine's Day were really about falling in love with o... → Read More
Your Truest Friend Resides Inside Your Own Heart
As we age, it seems that fighting with friends becomes less necessary or even possible. There are fewer matters worth fighting about and even fewer worth risking the friendship over. That said, I recently had a real fight with a dear friend. The figh... → Read More
How to Deepen Your Relationship With Yourself
All experiences, welcomed, are opportunities to see and know the truth of ourselves more clearly. With this attitude, we can relate to our whole life, the sweet and the bitter, as enlightening, not necessarily wanted, but enlightening nonetheless, an... → Read More
Self-Care in Times of Suffering
There are times in life when things fall apart, when we lose something deeply important, something that makes us feel connected, grounded or safe. Sometimes a lot of things fall apart at the same time. There are times in life, for everyone, when it ... → Read More
Mindfulness for the Uncooperative Mind
The only things needed for mindfulness are a mind to practice with, a willingness to try and stay present and an interest to meet yourself and your actual experience.... → Read More
10 Best Practices For Staying Present
Ours is a society obsessed with FOMO. And yet, many of us miss out on the most important thing of all, our own life. Seems we ought to be worrying less about missing the next party and more about missing existence.... → Read More
Prescription for Happiness: Living WithOUT Intention
There are consequences to our belief that we need to do something to get to happy, to now, and to the place where we can finally stop trying to get anywhere. For one thing, any happiness we achieve this way will be a temporary fix.... → Read More