By Shanna B. Tiayon — 2021
A new study finds that optimistic students are more likely to succeed.
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When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...
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This much-needed book outlines clear and effective strategies to help you cope with the tension, anxiety, trauma and violence of modern living.
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Photographs and stories of people who have coped with and overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and other challenges. “In MIT professor Daniel Jackson’s recent book, Portraits of Resilience, being resilient means being vulnerable.
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After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living with her parents, heartbroken and lost, when she became convinced that her skin had turned green.
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Art is becoming increasingly recognized for its therapeutic effects on our mental health. It is a technique that is helpful for people of all ages and is known to help improve the symptoms associated with anxiety and depression.
CBD is so hot right now. The compound is being added to everything from gummies to lattes, attached to claims about how it can improve health in any number of ways. But what do we really know about the validity of those claims? And what are we actually getting in consumer CBD products?
Drawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand anxiety.
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If you’ve been told you worry too much or that you’re a bit of an “overthinker,” this episode is for you. I share a trick that can help you stop worrying so much. It has changed the lives of many of my therapy clients over the years.
In today’s episode, I share the exercise and explain the science behind why it’s so effective. It takes less than 60 seconds and it can send signals to your brain that it’s okay to calm down.