Teal Swan

To Cry or Not to Cry? When to be Emotional as a Man - Should a man be emotional? Is it ok to cry or should a man not cry at all? Society is full of mixed messages because people are full of #mixedmessages.  To say that these mixed messages make it really hard to know what to do and not do, is the understatement of the century. One area in which these mixed messages create a big problem is in...

Why Love Isn't Selfless, Love is Selfish. In this video I'll explain why love is selfish and not why love isn't selfless.  To generalize, wherever you go in the world, in human society selflessness is a huge value.  At face value, this seems like a good thing.  After all, if everyone was just running around in a self-centered way doing whatever they wanted, regardless of who it nega...

There are a few common dysfunctional relationship patterns that people slip into that if not resolved, will cause inevitable end to a relationship.  One of those patterns is one that I call the “Dupe Pattern”.  This pattern is particularly hard to consciously recognize, beyond the overall feeling it causes that you are somehow and suddenly in a relationship that you didn’t sign up for; p...

So often, when I’m speaking about relationships between men and women, I mention the importance of a man providing ‘containment’ for the woman he is with.  As it turns out, many men and women both are confused about what containment even is, much less how to provide containment for someone.  For this reason, I’ve decided to write this article entirely about containment.

Relationship Advice For Women - Boost a Man's Confidence! I'll show you how you can boost a man's confidence through a simple relationship advice for women. If you want a great relationship advice and want to know how to boost a man's confidence, keep watching.

It doesn’t take a genius to look at the world today and to see just how divided people are.  Relative to almost every subject, there are concrete sides.  This creates a dramatic polarization.  That polarization fuels division and war.  Especially because so many of these polarizations that exist today are about fears, insecurities and therefore deeply held values.  So, wha...

Why women like assholes and why are they not attracted to nice guys. Let's find out why women like assholes in this video I'll talk about the reasons why women aren't attracted to nice guys... As you know, there is a general feeling amongst both men and women that nice guys are out of luck and have to turn mean if they want a woman, because women like assholes.  For those of you who don’t kno...

Find out what gives you energy. Are you curious about how to get more energy? In this video, I'll talk specifically about the process of how you can get more energy. People feel the best when they are full of #energy. But energy is something that most people go about getting in a subconscious way. It is a rare person who asks themselves: What would GIVE me energy right now? And goes directly for t...

Is life about the journey or the destination? In this video we'll find out whether life is about the journey or the destination: To some degree, all people are both outcome oriented and process oriented. This means that all people are both destination and journey oriented. The question is, to what degree? Some people derive much more pleasure and energy out of achievement and some derive much more...

How to trust yourself and how to build self-trust. Did you ask yourself how you can trust yourself better or how to build self-trust? In this video, I'll cover how you can build self-trust.

The inner child of yours symbolizes the core of your emotional self. The raw essence and vulnerability of your personal truth.

Though building resiliency in yourself and in the sectors of your life is always a good idea, in today’s world it is absolutely critical.

It is a big mistake to think that 2021 will be a year for “getting back to the way things were.” Anyway, I want to give you some tips for 2021 to help you to get the most out of it.

Giving and receiving are a natural part of life, just like an inhale and an exhale.  Both are an essential part of life satisfaction.  Both are also a necessary part of relationships.  But people can have a painful relationship with giving or receiving or both.  A while ago, I did a video titled: How To Receive .  If you feel you have trouble receiving, you will want to wa...

Gifts may not be your love language.  It may be a love language that you struggle at.  But it is an important language to develop, especially because you may just come across someone who receives love in that way.  And so today, I’m going to help you with how to speak the love language of gifts.

Today, I’m going to explain to you what #enmeshment is and also the common effects that it has on a person’s life. I want you to imagine a child who is sitting at a high chair. This child is not hungry and pushes the spoon away from his mouth. His mother refuses to #acknowledge that “I’m not hungry” is the #truth for this child and so she gets angry and shoves the spoon in the child’s mouth anyway...

Orphan Complex - What a lot of people don’t realize is that the experience of #orphanhood exists as on a scale of severity.

When we use the word stress, usually we are implying that stress is a purely negative thing. But not all stress is the same. To generalize, there are two different types of #stress. Distress and Eustress.

How to understand #family? Family is the framework of human society and the system into which a physical human is typically born and #socialized, it is critical to become aware of family in general.

There is an unhealthy tendency that can arise when a person is healing, which can easily be confused for healing, but that is in fact simply a dramatic swing into the opposite manifestation of unhealthy… A pendulum swing.

The better the question, the better the answer. For this reason, I have selected a collection of 100 of the most powerful questions that you can ask yourself. You can find all of the questions written down at https://tealswan.com/100questions/

There is a question you can ask yourself that will define your deepest joy, your actual purpose, your actual commitment and therefore the actual correct course of your life. That question is: What Pain Will You Say Yes to?

It is inevitable in life that certain circumstances, events and experiences will call your life into question. They will cause you to #re-evaluate your #life. For example, when someone gets married, it might cause you to question the quality and satisfaction of your own #relationships or the sacrifices you might be making for the sake of your career.

How to get over the fear of responsibility? The fear of responsibility is actually common enough that it has even been given a name: Hypengyophobia.

Looking to complete something or finish what you start is an important element of creating success, except for when it comes to things where there is never going to be an end. And one of the reasons that people suffer is that they tend to look for a point of ended-ness in things that have no end. They look to get things done, when there is no way to get it done.