Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

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

Sometimes you have to let go of your dreams. As the years go by, you come to the realization that who you are now is pretty much who you’ll be forever.

The "comfort relationship": Sometimes we get comfortable being uncomfortable.

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.

Finding gratitude in the wake of a bad breakup isn’t easy. Here are a few things to focus on.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

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

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!