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Emotions

3 Ways to Handle Tough Emotions

Lawrence J. Cohen Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in Playful Parenting

Are you overwhelmed by strong emotions? Maybe one emotion, such as fear or anger, is especially hard to deal with. Here are three key strategies for facing feelings directly.

Are you overwhelmed by strong emotions? Maybe one emotion, such as fear or anger, is especially hard to deal with. Here are three key strategies for facing feelings directly.

Artificial Intelligence

Dynamic Solitude: A New Way of Being Alone

John Nosta on January 6, 2025 in The Digital Self

Dynamic solitude merges introspection with AI, creating a space where reflection and collaboration enhance the essence of being alone.

Dynamic solitude merges introspection with AI, creating a space where reflection and collaboration enhance the essence of being alone.

Creativity

Your Space, Creativity, and You

Andrea Rosenhaft LCSW-R on January 6, 2025 in From Both Sides of the Couch

Research posits that creativity is stimulated by a messy environment. Can someone be inspired by their messy mind?

Research posits that creativity is stimulated by a messy environment. Can someone be inspired by their messy mind?

Aging

Is Aging Good or Bad? 13 Issues to Consider

Barbara Greenberg Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in The Teen Doctor

The experience of aging varies from person to person, but there are some common threads. These insights can help.

The experience of aging varies from person to person, but there are some common threads. These insights can help.

Borderline Personality Disorder

BPD and Limerence: When Yearning Becomes Pain

Imi Lo MA on January 6, 2025 in Living with Emotional Intensity

When borderline personality meets obsessive love, yearning tangles with fear of loss, and deep attachment wounds make every interaction feel like a survival threat.

When borderline personality meets obsessive love, yearning tangles with fear of loss, and deep attachment wounds make every interaction feel like a survival threat.

Emotion Regulation

Emotion Regulation Tools in Our Self-Care Tool Chest

Annie Wright LMFT on January 6, 2025 in Making the Whole Beautiful

Learn how to harness emotion regulation tools to maintain your mental health and strengthen your personal connections.

Learn how to harness emotion regulation tools to maintain your mental health and strengthen your personal connections.

Sex

A Sex Therapist at the Movies: "Babygirl"

Stephen Snyder M.D. on January 6, 2025 in SexualityToday

As a practicing sex therapist, I wondered how the theme of sexual submissiveness could still be enough to sustain a plot in 2024. I needn't have worried.

As a practicing sex therapist, I wondered how the theme of sexual submissiveness could still be enough to sustain a plot in 2024. I needn't have worried.

Psychology

Did Maslow Get Self-Actualization Wrong?

Sarah Abedi M.D. on January 6, 2025 in Healing the Wounded Healers

Here’s what the Blackfoot Tribe can teach us about self-actualization.

Here’s what the Blackfoot Tribe can teach us about self-actualization.

Attention

How to Stop Adding On and Making Things Worse

Diana Hill, Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in From Striving to Thriving

To avoid piling on and adding to your stress, try noting and widening your perspective.

To avoid piling on and adding to your stress, try noting and widening your perspective.

Relationships

In a Toxic Relationship, "Let Them" or Hear Them?

Fern Schumer Chapman on January 6, 2025 in Brothers, Sisters, Strangers

Trending on social media, the "Let Them Theory" encourages those in toxic relationships to "let them" (be and go). But does that deprive both parties of an opportunity for growth?

Trending on social media, the "Let Them Theory" encourages those in toxic relationships to "let them" (be and go). But does that deprive both parties of an opportunity for growth?

Disaster Psychology

Crashes That Happen Elsewhere Should Stay Elsewhere

Tom Bunn L.C.S.W. on January 6, 2025 in Conquer Fear Of Flying

According to some reports, the average amateur pilot in the U.S. is better at hand-flying than the average professional pilot in Korea.

According to some reports, the average amateur pilot in the U.S. is better at hand-flying than the average professional pilot in Korea.

Sport and Competition

The Scarcity Trap: How to Build Abundance Through Co-Creation

Adi Jaffe Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in All About Addiction

Feeling stuck in a "you vs. the world" scarcity mindset? Discover how reframing competition as co-creation can unlock abundance, deepen relationships, and transform your life.

Feeling stuck in a "you vs. the world" scarcity mindset? Discover how reframing competition as co-creation can unlock abundance, deepen relationships, and transform your life.

ADHD

5 ADHD-Friendly Ways to Make Your New Year Less Overwhelming

Sharon Saline Psy.D. on January 6, 2025 in On Your Way with ADHD

Instead of creating resolutions with lofty goals that you can't meet, learn how to reduce overwhelm, practice single-tasking, and set realistic expectations you can actually meet.

Instead of creating resolutions with lofty goals that you can't meet, learn how to reduce overwhelm, practice single-tasking, and set realistic expectations you can actually meet.

Therapeutic Alliance

How to Get Clients to Open Up Without Scaring Them Off

Lisa Liggins-Chambers Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in Spotlight on Special Education

How to improve your empathy and understanding of clients from certain cultures who may not easily disclose mental health symptoms or family mental health history.

How to improve your empathy and understanding of clients from certain cultures who may not easily disclose mental health symptoms or family mental health history.

Neuroscience

Don’t Take Shrooms—Read "Oedipus Rex" Instead

Charles S. Jacobs on January 6, 2025 in Management Rewired

A Personal Perspective: Change the story, change the mind, change the world.

A Personal Perspective: Change the story, change the mind, change the world.

Aging

Maintaining a Youthful Spirit

Paul J Dunion Ed.D. on January 6, 2025 in The Secular Mystic Path

Aging does not have to be the loss of youthfulness. Feeling the spirit of youthfulness comes through forgiving life, play, curiosity, awe and wonder.

Aging does not have to be the loss of youthfulness. Feeling the spirit of youthfulness comes through forgiving life, play, curiosity, awe and wonder.

Stress

5 Ways to Recover From a Tough Day

Alice Boyes Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in In Practice

Strategies to help you survive and bounce back better from an exhausting, frustrating, or depleting day.

Strategies to help you survive and bounce back better from an exhausting, frustrating, or depleting day.

Relationships

Is Love at First Sight Possible?

Cortney S. Warren PhD, ABPP on January 6, 2025 in Naked Truth

Do you believe in love at first sight? Understanding the nature of love helps us explore the various aspects of love, including lust and attachment.

Do you believe in love at first sight? Understanding the nature of love helps us explore the various aspects of love, including lust and attachment.

Psychosis

Protecting Yourself From Relapse After Psychosis

Sarah Merritt Ryan on January 6, 2025 in Healing Mind

Personal Perspective: I did the right thing and reported symptoms of a psychotic relapse to my provider. Contacting your provider immediately is so important.

Personal Perspective: I did the right thing and reported symptoms of a psychotic relapse to my provider. Contacting your provider immediately is so important.

Trauma

Can Babies Remember Pain?

Corinne Masur Psy.D. on January 6, 2025 in Parenting Matters

Early experiences of separation and pain affect infants and can be remembered in rudimentary form in some cases. This is important for parents to recognize.

Early experiences of separation and pain affect infants and can be remembered in rudimentary form in some cases. This is important for parents to recognize.

Divorce

Thinking About a Divorce?

Aurisha Smolarski LMFT on January 6, 2025 in Cooperative Co-Parenting for Secure Kids

When done well, following a few basic principles, divorce need not be traumatizing and can mark the start of a healthier chapter for everyone involved.

When done well, following a few basic principles, divorce need not be traumatizing and can mark the start of a healthier chapter for everyone involved.

Relationships

The "Relationship Goals" Trap

John Kim LMFT on January 6, 2025 in The Angry Therapist

It’s easy to forget, but Instagram is not a reflection of real life. No matter how perfect a couple looks online, they have their own struggles, just like you.

It’s easy to forget, but Instagram is not a reflection of real life. No matter how perfect a couple looks online, they have their own struggles, just like you.

Grief

Finding Your People When Grieving

Larry Carlat on January 6, 2025 in A Space in the Heart

Personal Perspective: There’s a surprising power in being part of a group. Revealing your inner thoughts and feelings—no matter how crazy you think they are—opens you up like nothing else.

Personal Perspective: There’s a surprising power in being part of a group. Revealing your inner thoughts and feelings—no matter how crazy you think they are—opens you up like nothing else.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Why Homework Is Vital for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Bridget Flynn Walker Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in Anxiety Relief for Kids and Teens

Like learning any new skill, CBT must be practiced; this is done with the help of homework that focuses on exposure in various situations.

Like learning any new skill, CBT must be practiced; this is done with the help of homework that focuses on exposure in various situations.

Career

What Would Peter Drucker Say?

Bruce Rosenstein on January 6, 2025 in The Peter Drucker Files

How you can benefit from formulating questions of self-discovery and self-revelation.

How you can benefit from formulating questions of self-discovery and self-revelation.

Consciousness

Does the Brain Create Consciousness?

Hamid Zand Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in The Behavioral Microbiome

Consciousness may be a narrative constructed by our inner thoughts.

Consciousness may be a narrative constructed by our inner thoughts.

Parenting

Are They "Choosing Not to" or "Struggling With"?

Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in Liking the Child You Love

No child truly wants to be miserable—understanding the difference between "choose not to" and "struggle with" can change everything.

No child truly wants to be miserable—understanding the difference between "choose not to" and "struggle with" can change everything.

Happiness

Types of Well-Being

Tchiki Davis, Ph.D. on January 6, 2025 in Click Here for Happiness

Discover the different types of well-being that emerge as we move through the stages of adult development.

Discover the different types of well-being that emerge as we move through the stages of adult development.

Stress

Why Men and Women Need Different Stress Strategies

Srini Pillay M.D. on January 6, 2025 in Debunking Myths of the Mind

Do men and women experience stress differently? Explore the science behind personalized stress solutions.

Do men and women experience stress differently? Explore the science behind personalized stress solutions.