The brain always likes to know — My twins started school and I have a bad feeling. We heard the teacher is too cold toward kids. What about tolerance then? My boy is an immature and sensitive pup who can’t sit straight. She already left the class alone in the schoolyard for half an hour. The school…

How to manage anxiety and negative thoughts with meditation — We all know what it feels like to be anxious at some point or another in our lives. For some it might be a rare occasion, but for many others, it’s a thing they have to face and deal every day. Living with anxiety can be quite challenging, depending on…

Tips I wish I’d known about earlier — “Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.” Salvador Dali According to psychologists Hewitt and Flett in Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, “perfectionism is a broad and multifaceted personality construct that involves the requirement of perfection or the appearance of perfection for the self or others”. Perfectionism is something…

After decades of suffering change is possible — I can’t remember when I was so engrossed, listening to a man overjoyed with life. But last July, Phillip practically died on an operating table due to the consequences of alcoholism. Amid the COVID-19 stress and after 40 years of heavy drinking, this 57-year-old managed to stop drinking. Now he’s…

Yes, you can manage your emotional rollercoaster — Something was very wrong with me. My hair was falling off in handfuls. My ovaries were sending me mixed signals: “Hello, we have officially expired and booked a ticket space with Elon Musk. Get ready for menopause.” And “Hey, we’re back two weeks early. What have you cooked for us?” …

If you did a thing, celebrate the thing — don’t pretend to be undeserving of the win — Imposter syndrome seems to be a fun topic to discuss — thousands have written (and continue to write) thousands of stories on it, and it’s certainly not a new experience. Coined by Drs. Suzanne Imes and Pauline Rose Clance in the 1970s, imposter syndrome — or imposter phenomenon or imposter…

How to get things done with the music — A lot of us listen to music while working. But does it really help to get things done? I checked 30 scientific studies to prove that it does, and if you don’t listen to anything at work — I’ll tell why you probably should. It’s the second post in the…

2 myths about self-confidence that you’ve unconsciously integrated through the subtle messages of TV. — I was born at the beginning of the millennium. I grew up with the rise of TV shows and epic movie stars. As a kid, trapped in the vast and dangerous streets of a city, I was passing a lot of time home, watching television. Sometimes, I’m wondering how life…

#2 Your “if-this-then-that” stories aren’t true — The disaster always looks real. While I was translating content for an eye clinic website, I found myself in every other illness. My eyes were often dry. I couldn’t see subtitles in a movie anymore. A cataract? Macular degeneration? I had something in the white of the eye that didn’t…