The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held
The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude
by Elizabeth Burns Dyer
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Traditional and tech-based methods can reveal what your practice is doing – and give you the confidence to stick with it
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by Patricia E Zurita Ona
How to imagine a better future for yourself
Feeling unclear or pessimistic about what’s ahead? Your ‘best possible self’ is a tool for seeing things differently
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How to build a memory palace
Upgrade your ability to recall dates, names or other details with an ancient trick of the memory trade: the ‘method of loci’
by Lynne Kelly
The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun
In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears
by Eric Jannazzo
How to network when you’re socially anxious
Do networking events fill you with dread? Here’s how to manage your fears, show up, and take advantage of the opportunities
by Fallon Goodman
How to write yourself every day
By getting thoughts out of your head and on to a page, you can become the author of your own life, one small page at a time
by Mohsen Askari
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Close the intention-action gap and live the way you want, using insights from the cognitive neuroscience of habits
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The thinking style that makes people vulnerable to extremism
The people most drawn to ideological thinking and authoritarianism aren’t aware of what makes them so susceptible
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Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are
Psychedelics and neuroscience seem to support his ideas about ancestral dreams and fears – but with an evolutionary twist
by Hugh McGovern
How to reclaim your attention
Psychological minimalism is a way to clarify your life by cutting the mental noise from your environment and routines
by Yousri Marzouki
Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation
Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about
by LaCount ‘JJ’ Togans
Your purpose isn’t something to find, it’s something you form
In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from
by Ross White