Everywhere you look, sites are promoting the power of positivity. We hear about all the great benefits from lower stress to better physical immunity. But sometimes, that positivity just feels wrong. Why is it is that sometimes being around positive people can make us unhappy?

Can Dungeons and Dragons help us to trust others? Faced with a mysterious NPC, many of us immediately become suspicious and wary. What are the reasons we don’t trust others and can we learn how to trust someone? And what if they as suspicious of us, are we seen as trustworthy in their eyes? The question of can RPGs help us trust others is yes, if we are willing to learn how to trust others, including ourselves.

In RPGs, a mimic can disguise itself as an everyday object, hidden in its disguise, waiting for its prey.

In real life, we have versions of mimics as well. We call them imposters and fraudsters, disguising themselves as something they are not to gain from their deception.

Being true to yourself is so much more than just a nice quote and magically believing in yourself. But why is it so hard to be authentic? We wear these masks for work and society, sometimes I don’t know who I am. How to live authentically? Be yourself, be the true person underneath. But I admit, I often am not living authentically. It’s a struggle and one that I fail at again and again but keep trying.

How to stop procrastinating and get things done? We’ve all been there. A big project and the deadlines are looming, but we’re dragging our feet. We know we need to get to work but the struggle to get motivated and started feels like trying to walk through quicksand. Here are 10 ways to overcome procrastination to help you get unstuck and back on track.

We have all likely encountered people that don’t stop talking. Even when we try to be polite to walk away and end the conversation, they just keep talking non-stop and are chronic time wasters. What if they were D&D monsters? Here’s a DnD homebrew monster and statblock for these compulsive chatters. And some tips for how to make a person stop talking and dealing with these over-talkers in real life.

I am a people pleaser. Making others happy shouldn’t be a bad thing. After all, what’s the danger of being a people-pleaser? But it means losing yourself, almost entirely. Why am I a people pleaser? It’s a habit that I can’t shake. These are my confessions, the confessions of a people pleaser. And what recovery and authenticity mean to those, like myself, that are trying to find their way back.