Nedra Nuggets

Licensed Therapist, NYT Bestselling Author, and Content Creator Nedra Glover Tawwab writes weekly about mental health and maintaining healthy relationships with self and others.

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By Nedra Tawwab

How to Stop Over-Explaining

Let’s say you tell someone you can’t go to their party. As an excuse you say your parents are going to be in town. Instead of getting the escape you were looking for, the person tells you to bring your parents. Now you’re stuck going to a party with your parents, and you didn’t even want to go in the first place. It wasn’t that you d...

Nov 23

9 Tips for Surviving Holiday Gatherings

When we get together with our families for the holidays there can be tension in the room. It is not uncommon for there to be someone present that we don’t like or that we aren’t happy to see.

Nov 16

Those Flags Are Red For a Reason

Red flags are like stop signs and red lights. They mean stop, not proceed with caution. They do not mean, ask questions and consider things from a different point of view. Just like with stop signs and red traffic lights, when you do not adhere to red flags, there are consequences.

Nov 9

Making Time for Play as Adults

I used to think that playing was immature. I remember thinking in middle school that we were too grown to even be playing video games. As we all get older, this is what we tell ourselves about play. Much like I did in middle school, we tell ourselves play is immature. We tell ourselves we don’t have time for it. We convince ourselves that play...

Nov 1

Let’s Normalize Anger

I’ve been angry. We all have, and it’s ok for us to feel that way. Anger is an emotion just like any other, and it is important that we allow ourselves to feel what we feel. Sometimes things will really bother you. Someone may really hurt you. In life you may cross paths with people who take advantage of you or mistreat you. This may cause y...

Oct 26

How to Make and Keep Friends

I get a lot of questions about how to make friends, and I understand why. I moved away from Detroit in 2009 after spending my entire life there. Moving required that I figure out how to meet new people and also hang on to the relationships I’d built back home. It’s been a little over a decade since that move and I’ve managed to maintain a ...

Oct 19

There Is No Expiration Date on Your Dreams:

How Age Based Goals and Expectations Set Us Up for Disappointment

Oct 12

The Restorative Practice of Apologizing

Many of us think that if we need to apologize it must mean we’ve done something bad, and if we’ve done something bad, then maybe that means we are bad. But that is not the case. It is brave to apologize. Apologizing is a way to honor someone else’s feelings and needs separate from our own.

Oct 4

What It Means to Be Grown

I am always asked, “What did you want to be when you grew up?” I remember daydreaming about being grown. I realized at a young age that being an adult meant being able to create the life you wanted to live. It felt like being grown meant that you could do whatever you wanted to do. You didn’t have to ask anybody for permission, you could j...

Sep 28

You Don’t Have to Like Everyone

(And They Don’t Have to Like You)

Sep 21

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