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Can You Save Your Family by Ending the Marriage?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Choosing this middle path between staying and going is healthy but not easy for all parents
  • See if you are good candidates
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Hidden Assets: 3 Reasons We Don’t Recognize Our Strengths

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Is the weakness you’ve struggled with all your life masking your signature strength?
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What “Stay-At-Home Sons” Get Right, and What They Get Wrong

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • The “stay-at-home sons” trend reflects changing ideas about adulthood, independence, and family support in today’s economic reality
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Responding to Change at Work

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • How do you respond to change at work?
  • Consider the Big 4 universal human needs and how to meet them in healthy, productive ways while adapting to change
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What Happens When AI Adapts to Us

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • AI overuse can encourage dependence and dull critical thinking, while our writing, sources, and relational skills become more similar and lose human uniqueness
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Should You Correct Someone Who Misspeaks? It Depends

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • People often say things that aren’t true
  • Some speak out of ignorance, others with malice
  • When you know the truth, should you correct the speaker?
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4 Reasons Confusion Signals Psychological Maturity

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Confusion is at times inaccurately perceived as evidence of intellectual inferiority, yet openness to confusion may point to deeper levels of psychological maturity
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Postpartum Pet Aversion: What Is It and How Can We Help?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • When a beloved pet suddenly feels overwhelming after pregnancy, it can be frightening and cause shame
  • Learn why PPA happens, how to ease the strain, and when to seek help
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Consent Is Not an Alibi

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Personal Perspective: My father would not allow me to box because of his ideals about what sport is for
  • If those ideals still hold, fans of cage fights may have much to answer for
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Filling In the Blanks in Dementia

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • I recently sat in my studio on Outer Cape Cod to interview an expert—Suzanne Faith, a psychiatric nurse and a Certified Dementia Professional (CDP) for 40 years
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Thoughts Are Like Viruses

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Why are thoughts so disruptive?
  • They have no substance and cannot harm you
  • Both must dock with a living organism to be activated
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5 Missing Rubrics From College Core Competencies

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Educators often rely on rubrics as scoring tools for learning and feedback
  • This is useful to some extent, but there is much more to examine for student success
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What Is Scromiting and Why Is It Increasing So Dramatically?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Scromiting is a condition affecting cannabis users that combines intense vomiting with actual screaming
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The Science of Making Music Therapeutic

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • What makes music a kind of therapy is the trained professional assessing why it is being used, observing how the patient responds, and adapting it to support a therape…
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Small Needle, Big Questions: GLP-1s in Your Golden Years?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • For a lot of older adults, especially those carrying real cardiovascular or metabolic risk, GLP-1s may offer benefits beyond the number on the scale when under a docto…
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AI, Truth, and Consequences

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • A human can do 20 percent of the thinking and still own 100 percent of the consequence
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Integrity Is a Choice; It Cannot Be Purchased or Sold

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Integrity is a decision and a behavior that is intentional and grounded in ethical and moral choices and actions
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How Philosophical Counseling Can Help

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • When you’re struggling with issues of meaning and purpose, identity and change, core beliefs and values, or freedom and authenticity, a philosophical counselor can help
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What Is the Link Between Climate Change and Child Abuse?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Extreme heat doesn’t just affect children’s bodies
  • Emerging research suggests it may also increase stress inside families—and the risk of child maltreatment
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How to Raise a Confident, Independent Child

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Children's independence can only be built through real decisions, real mistakes, and the experience of figuring things out on their own
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What Exactly Is Positive Mental Health?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • A recent consensus study identified six core dimensions of positive mental health along with a modified definition of the concept
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I Hate Myself for Using Amazon, How About You?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Personal Perspective: I've bought into Amazon's tactics, literally and figuratively
  • And I'm not alone: Amazon's revenue from Prime memberships totals $44.374 billion
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When “Protecting Your Peace” Is Really Avoidance

Tiny Buddha · 3 min takeaway

  • “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” ~Anonymous My sister called four times before I picked up
  • Not four times in one day—four times over three weeks
  • Each time, I watched her name light up my phone, felt something tighten in my chest, and set my phone face-down on the counter
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Why Your Life Matters… More Than You’ll Ever Know

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • We underestimate how much we matter because we’ve lost our social mirrors—people beside us each day reflecting our worth back
  • Then we measure our value incorrectly
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Lindsay Clancy and the Urgent Need for Conversation

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Personal Perspective: The prosecutor in Lindsay Clancy's murder case says it's "not a public debate about women’s mental health," but of course it is
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What Life Insurance Companies Know About Addiction

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • People meditate, do yoga, exercise, diet, and take supplements to live longer
  • Yet insurance data reveals a neglected truth: Start with drugs, alcohol, and SUDs
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Why Starting Feels Harder Than Doing

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Why do simple tasks sit on our to-do lists for weeks?
  • Personality may help explain why we procrastinate and why starting small can help
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Why Smart People Learn but Still Don’t Change

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Knowing what to do rarely means actually doing it
  • The hidden barriers to behavioural change lie in threat, identity and the relationships that help us turn insight into action
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Why We Should Talk to Our Family Elders

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • A Personal Perspective: It is important to know who came before you and what their lives were like
  • Whether you know them or not, they are part of your identity
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How Could Childhood Trauma Make You Sick?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Do you struggle with chronic pain or illness?
  • If so, the root cause may be painful or traumatic events in childhood—and trauma-informed therapy can help
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What to Do After an Angry Outburst

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • It’s hard to recover when we lose our temper
  • Here's what to do after an angry outburst
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A Psychedelic Solution for Postpartum Depression?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • A new, small study of a one-time treatment showed that all patients reached remission of postpartum depression by day 1
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The Emotions You Didn't Know You Were Sharing

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Emotions can spread like infectious diseases
  • For leaders talking to their teams and speakers talking to a room, that's both very good news and very bad news
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Being at the Top Is Not the Same as Being Better

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Having less money, power, or status than others does not make you less important
  • If someone tells you otherwise, remember this reflects a social judgment, not an objective fact
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Are You Missing Out in Life Because of Fear?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Your fears may be keeping you from living your fullest life—at work and at home
  • Are you ready to acknowledge your fears?
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9 Things the Emotionally Attuned Parent Says to Their Child

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Children's behavior grows out of their feelings
  • Here are nine small changes in what you say that can help raise an emotionally healthy child and stop neglect from passing down
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7 Tools to Help You Maintain a Positive Attitude

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Cultivating an optimistic belief that good things will happen in our lives may help us create longer and healthier lives for ourselves
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ADHD in Adults: A Neuro-Affirming Guide for Professionals

PositivePsychology.com · 3 min takeaway

  • For millions of adults, ADHD remains unrecognized, often until burnout forces the question
  • The adult who was once a “gifted but lazy” child, the woman diagnosed in her 40s or 50s, and the high achiever surviving on adrenaline-fueled cycles of hyperfocus and…
  • Many ADHD adults become high achievers by masking, overworking
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Why 'Work-Life Balance' Is a Myth—and What to Do Instead

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • As we head back to school, the issue of work-life balance often comes into focus again
  • Here's why work-life balance isn't what we should strive for
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and Prolonged Uncertainty

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Are you tired of waiting to find out what the government knows about UAPs and UFOs?
  • The wait may be affecting us more than we realize
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Loving Without Losing Yourself

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • At some point in our lives, many of us feel as if we've given too much
  • It's important to be able to identify that this has happened and know how to engage in self-care
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Understanding Why We Procrastinate

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • What underlies your procrastination?
  • Understanding it may be the key to finally letting it go
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Before You Call Someone Toxic, Look at Yourself

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • What if relationships are not only about finding the right person, but also about discovering something about ourselves?
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Zen and the Art of Academia

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Education and learning are a temporal trail in which everyone has or is walking the same path but are at different points along a continuum of experience
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Can Steroids Cause Anxiety, Insomnia, or Mood Changes?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • A medication prescribed for a physical illness can sometimes have unexpected effects on the mind, from disrupted sleep to significant changes in mood and behavior
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Five Tips to Avoid Reaching Your Breaking Point

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • As situations change, priorities are meant to be adjusted
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The Conversation Skill Most of Us Never Learn

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Looping is a conversation skill most of us never learn
  • Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is slow down and make sure we’ve truly understood
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When's the Last Time Somebody Lifted You in the Air?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • If there is one part of yourself you should cherish, expand, and explore, it is your wondrous child
  • Discover how reconnecting with this vital self-state can help you truly live
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Why Does It Bother Us So Much When Someone Doesn’t Like Us?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Why can someone’s dislike of us feel so threatening—even when we don't even particularly like them?
  • Sometimes we're afraid of what their rejection might mean
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The Avoidance-Compound Trap: How Alcohol Compounds Stress

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • I used to drink to cope with stress
  • Here's what I wish I had known sooner
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Imagining Synesthetically in Writing

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Strange descriptions that force you to think of one sense in terms of another can make you imagine more intensely than sensory language that is familiar
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Does Leadership Training Change People?

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • The current leadership development paradigm is expensive and ineffective
  • Better is a continuous leadership learning model that drives true behavioral change
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Enough Already! Stop Trying to Prove You Were a Good Parent

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • When parents keep defending the past, they can surrender the value of the present
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Reading Fiction Can Boost Your Emotional Intelligence

Psychology Today · 3 min takeaway

  • Whether you're reading Pride and Prejudice, Heated Rivalry, or another novel, reading fiction can improve your emotional intelligence
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