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Artificial Intelligence

Forget AI—Here’s How Leaders Save Time Using Neuroscience

Nicole Byers Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Neuroscience in Your Daily Life

Stop shuffling incomplete tasks around your to-do list. These 3 strategies can help you find more space in your day.

Attachment

How to Overcome "Anxious Attachment"

Nicholas Balaisis Ph.D., RP on November 6, 2024 in Our Devices, Our Selves

Do you or your partner often express your love in a "clingy" or jealous form? Here are some strategies to soothe attachment anxieties and create stronger adult bonds.

Trauma

Generational Trauma: What Are We Carrying With Us?

Robert Castellano M.S. on November 6, 2024 in The Humanistic Explorer

We can pass trauma down through generations, but we can break the cycle and begin healing.

Grief

From Grief to Acceptance: How to Find Healing After Loss

Matt James Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Focus on Forgiveness

How you process grief is unique to you. Integrating the lessons and meaning of the loss while finding a higher purpose is a key to reaching true acceptance.

Stress

Coping With Stress as a Couple

Norman B. Epstein, Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Stronger Bonds

The ability to cope with life stress is essential to psychological health. Learn about constructive dyadic coping skills that couples and families can use to support each other.

Animal Behavior

Presidential Pets: Building Trust in the Oval Office

Katherine Compitus on November 6, 2024 in Zooeyia

Discover how presidential pets have shaped public perception and trust in leaders, revealing the deeper connection between compassion and effective governance.

Meditation

5 Micro-Meditations to Reduce Stress

Esther Sternberg M.D. on November 6, 2024 in Creating Wellbeing Wherever You Are

If you're feeling stressed and anxious, try these five ways to get into a meditative state, reduce your stress, and find a sense of calm.

Anxiety

Learning How to Live with Uncertainty

Leon Garber LMHC on November 6, 2024 in Perfectionism

Living with fear is difficult, but chronically avoiding it can lead to harmful consequences.

OCD

Understanding Mental Compulsions in OCD Treatment

Danielle Henderson, Psy.D., LPC and Meghin Lisi, LMFT on November 6, 2024 in From Uncertainty to Expertise

Mental compulsions are often difficult to recognize and even harder to treat. How to spot mental compulsions and how to treat them with exposure and response prevention.

Therapy

Did Your Therapist Let You Down?

Lindsay Weisner Psy.D. on November 6, 2024 in The Venn Diagram Life

Disappointment with your therapist frequently results in the decision to end therapy.

Politics

Feeling Stress, Anxiety, and Depression About the Election?

Karen E. Dill-Shackleford Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in How Fantasy Becomes Reality

Personal Perspective: Is the stress and anxiety of politics in American life eating you up? Try this big perspective shift.

Leadership

What Can Archery Teach Us About Success Today?

Jonathan Rhodes Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Imagery Coaching

Explore how the mental precision of elite archers and athletes can sharpen your leadership skills, helping you focus, adapt under pressure, and lead with resilience.

Sport and Competition

Let’s Grab a Dink! A Pickleball Revolution

Tess M. Kilwein PhD, ABPP, CMPC on November 6, 2024 in In the Trenches

Pickleball sky-rocketed in popularity during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Players of all identities and abilities continue to “grab a dink” together.

Emotions

Emotions 101: Improving Your Emotional Awareness

Tomislav D. Zbozinek Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Matters of the Mind

Emotions have specific situations that elicit them, behaviors they drive, and factors underlying them. Use this information to better understand yourself and others in daily life.

To top character represents "quiet," the bottom one "solitude." Together the two mean "Tranquility."

Mindfulness

Five Different Kinds of Quiet to Establish Peace of Mind

Richard E. Cytowic M.D. on November 6, 2024 in The Fallible Mind

People often mistake solitude for loneliness, but the distinction is crucial. Solitude has, loneliness wants. It is all the difference in the world.

Feature

Are You an Optimist or Pessimist?

A Dose of Realism in a Changing World

Burnout

Quit the Suffering Contest

Gary R Simonds MD MS FAANS on November 6, 2024 in Rich Encounters

Personal Perspective: Routinely engaging in suffering contests with our co-workers rewards a potentially harmful focus on our stressors rather than uplifts.

Alcoholism

Relapsing Risks the Very Things You Fought For

Peg O'Connor Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Philosophy Stirred, Not Shaken

Personal Perspective: Drugs and alcohol are false friends.

Positive Psychology

Your Guide to Overcoming Hopelessness

Susanna Newsonen on November 6, 2024 in The Path to Passionate Happiness

To combat the hopelessness, step back and look at the big picture.

Near-Death Experiences

Can Being Close to Death Transform Your Life?

Marilyn A. Mendoza Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Understanding Grief

How does having a near-death experience change you in ways a life-threatening experience doesn't?

Animal Behavior

Dinosaur Behavior: What We Know and How We Know It

Marc Bekoff Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Animal Emotions

Dr. David Hone, a dinosaur expert, writes about dinosaur behavior, including grooming, feeding, fighting, mating, and group living, which resembles many modern animals.

Happiness

Why Decorating Early for Christmas May Make You Happier

Amy Morin on November 6, 2024 in What Mentally Strong People Don't Do

You might feel social pressure to wait until Thanksgiving before you start decorating for Christmas. But decorating early can have some surprising benefits for your mental health.

Boundaries

The Dos and Don’ts of Defending Healthy Boundaries

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on November 6, 2024 in A Deeper Wellness

We all struggle with people in our lives ignoring our boundaries, and then we wonder how to maintain them and remain focused on our healing and growth.

Relationships

3 Signs You and Your Partner Have Roommate Syndrome

Mark Travers Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Social Instincts

A partner should feel like a lover, not a roommate. What if they do?

Relationships

Rumors Are Darkly Creative Narratives

Hansika Kapoor Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in Dark Creativity

Gossip, driven by personality traits and psychological motives, can influence power dynamics, relationships, and reputations in positive and harmful ways.

Social Learning Theory

When a High-Profile Influencer Promotes Corporal Punishment

David J Bredehoft Ph.D. on November 6, 2024 in The Age of Overindulgence

Is it possible for individuals to adopt new behaviors after hearing about the behavior in a fictionalized story? According to Albert Bandura, and social learning theory, it is.