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How Not to Give Up on Yourself

People rarely give up on themselves in a single moment. Twelve chapters on self-worth, resilience and authenticity — with practical exercises for the moments when your own compass has slipped.

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Essays

Psychological essays on relationships, the image we make of each other, and what literature already knew about it.

Projection in Relationships: When Your Partner Becomes a Screen

When the trigger is small and the reaction is huge, more is being negotiated than the topic. What Jung, couples therapy and literature know about projection, and how to notice it in yourself.

SundaMind

How structured self-observation reveals patterns a free-form journal hides.

2026-07-28

Why Your Journal Is Lying to You: How 8 Dimensions Change Everything

Cognitive biases make a free-form journal misleading. How eight recurring dimensions make trends comparable — and what SundaMind deliberately does NOT do.

Staying True to Yourself

Why people rarely give up on themselves in a single moment — and what helps when your own compass has slipped.

2026-08-24

How Not to Give Up on Yourself

Twelve chapters on self-worth, resilience and authenticity, with practical exercises — readable in full and free as a PDF. By Dirk Werner, psychologist and licensed psychotherapist.

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