Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Clutter is a distraction, causing you to lose focus and get sidetracked, and it also signals your brain to feel that your work is never done.

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

Is it possible that talking about your relationship less could actually be the key to making it better? Sometimes, stop talking and just let yourselves be.

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.

The problem with people pleasing: You’re trying so hard to be good. So how come you feel so bad?

Attracted to the wrong people? Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing.

Being a parent isn’t everything.

Yes, a lot of parents are assholes. But you know what? A lot of people are assholes; some of them happen to have kids, some don’t. I can’t speak for all parents, and I wouldn’t want to try. But speaking as one particular person with kids, here’s what I wish my childfree friends would understand…