Helping each other and offering a helping hand is one of our innate tendencies and one of the principal characteristics of the human spirit. Why is there then such a tremendous difficulty for us to ask for help or be happy to receive it? We’ve been trained to be self-sufficient. To be able to do everything on our own. As we grow up we are praised for what we manage to do “all by ourselves”. Yet, in the same time, we are told to: “share with your sister” and to be “team players”. We grow to develop a deep conflict...

It is said that the devil’s weapon of choice is self-doubt. There’s nothing that takes us to hell faster than our sense of unworthiness, our evaluation of not being enough and our fear of being undervalued. Our sense of self is tainted with an endless process of comparison and estimation to everyone and everything around us. Many of us equate who we are with the things we have, the places we've seen and our ability to show those off. I've written before about the deep association the mind makes to putting a price tag to our achievements and our own...