How the Expectation Gap (and Valentine’s Day) is Impacting Your Happiness

Valentine’s Day has always been very curious to me. Hallmark created a holiday and the next thing you know, there is a day during the year on which more people than not - whether in a relationship or not - walk around with a faint or very strong feeling of insufficiency and unmet expectations. When the expectation is set all around us about what LOVE is supposed to look like (and this idea is very far from the reality, depth, and complexity of what love is actually like), the result isn’t pretty. In today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I take on Valentine’s Day as well as the broader impact of externally constructed expectations in our lives. How are we affected by externally constructed expectations and what can we do about it?