Living with chronic procrastination can feel like living in an echo chamber of self-frustration. Everywhere you turn, it can feel like you are surrounded by unrealized aspirations, things left undone, and projects…
Stop Building Your Life Around the Reactions of Others
Source: publicdownloadpictures/Pixabay You’ve started a new business, but you’re not getting the traffic you hoped to get. You’ve posted a YouTube video on watercolor painting techniques but haven’t gotten many views. You’re…
Note to Self: Compassion, Not Criticism
Source: Dollar Gill/Unsplash I’ve heard it from music performers of all kinds, from highly trained classical musicians to the regular singers at my small town bar’s karaoke night: “I’m my own worst…
Thinking of Cancelling Due to Social Anxiety?
Source: fotostorm / iStock It’s the afternoon of that party you RSVP’d “yes” to two weeks ago. Dread has been slowly building for the last few days. As the minutes tick by,…
The Neuroscience of Hypnosis |
By Mac E. Lancaster, BS, Aneesh Nudurupati, and Ran D. Anbar, MD Although some people may shroud their understanding of hypnosis in mysticism, the science behind the practice is profound. Hypnosis can…
Life Doesn’t Make Sense |
Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian Source: Image Bank of the Museo del Prado/Public Domain In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus speaks of the divide that exists between what human beings want and…
How a Mediterranean Diet Can Help Fight Teen Depression
“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.” —John Ciardi Good food, good mood Midjourney A recent study by José Francisco López-Gil and colleagues looked…
Are You Keeping Up With Those New Year’s Resolutions?
Source: Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels My previous post talked about how difficult it can be to actualize our New Year’s resolutions. From the Deconstructing Anxiety perspective, the reason is that our strategy is faulty—when…
How to Create New Year’s Resolutions That Actually Stick
It’s often the butt of jokes. We have all sorts of grand plans and highfalutin, idealistic promises that we make on New Year’s Day—only to find that old habits rush back in…
Why Is Happiness Elusive? |
Source: Zac Durant/Unsplash If you could grant your loved ones a single wish, what would it be? My wish would be for my loved ones to be happy. On the surface, this…