Anxiety is increasingly prevalent in young children, with about 9.4 percent of children having an anxiety diagnosis, according to the CDC. For young children, symptoms of anxiety might look like an increase…
Programming Your Life Macro |
Macro is short for macroinstruction. A macroinstruction is a programmable pattern that takes a series of instructions and executes them in a sequence after a single keystroke. We use macros every time…
The Best Parenting Is Not Fair; It’s Responsive
As a new mother home alone on maternity leave, I felt intense shame about the way I was interacting with my baby. Social media served up daily stories of smiling mothers who…
Is It Meltdown, or a Mindstorm?
Is It Meltdown, or a Mindstorm?
“Daymares”: A Quick Guide to Navigating Catastrophic Thoughts
Daymares are waking catastrophic fantasies. Source: DALL-E You might feel like an imposter. You think something terrible is going to happen… You think you left your door unlocked as you try to…
Why Are My Adult Children Angry and Estranged From Me?
Since 1990, the divorce rate for parents 50 and older has doubled. Researchers coined the phenomenon, the gray divorce revolution, and they predict it will triple by 2030. The damaged relationships of…
The Blessing of a Professional Crisis
Over the past 25 years, I’ve personally experienced several professional crises—events that presented significant, potentially career-ending challenges. My first attempt at entering the field of clinical psychology was a crisis in itself….
Do Trigger Warnings Work? |
HTGanzo/Adobe Stock The term trigger warning was coined in the late 1990s on feminist Internet message boards, where it cautioned readers about graphic depictions of crimes, typically rape. The idea was to…
The Consequences of Self-Talk, When It Is Negative
Source: Alli Spotts-De Lazzer Many of us use self-talk to inspire and improve ourselves. Yet the typically harsh, punishing approach often backfires (for example, Loser!). Research has repeatedly linked self-criticism to various…
What Can Gen Z Do About Skyrocketing Anxiety?
Source: Sergey Sokolov / Unsplash Gen Z are my people. I get annoyed when older generations write them off by making fun of their slang. I said things like “Gag me with…