Negative thinking habits lead to all kinds of emotional struggles from anxiety and depression to relationship conflict and procrastination... | Continue reading
“I’m just really mean to myself.” That was the first thing my former client Jesse said when I asked her what brought her into therapy. She went on to explain that she was her own worst enemy and was constantly critical and judgmental with herself… Anytime I speak up during a meet … | Continue reading
3 simple psychological tips that will help you become more motivated for anything—from exercise to a complete career change | Continue reading
Is social anxiety holding you back? With the right approach—and some practice—you can learn to overcome your social anxiety for good. | Continue reading
6 powerful tips to help you get over FODO—the fear of disappointing others and everything it holds you back from. | Continue reading
To manage anger effectively, you must understand how it works, including unlearning the most common myths and misconceoptions about anger. | Continue reading
Psychological skepticism means that you're thoughtful about the content of your own mind—neither ignoring nor blindly trusting what it sends you. | Continue reading
The ability to focus deeply for long stretches of time is an ability highly focused people cultivate with good habits over time. | Continue reading
New Year's resolutions are a set up for failure and disappointment, but a New Year's Virtue is a far more reliabale path to successful personal growth. | Continue reading
3 ways to handle toxic people and relationships with strength, confidence, and compassion. Tips from a professional psychologist. | Continue reading
Don't fall for the illusion that you can fix an unhappy marriage. You can't. The key is to pick the right person in the first place. | Continue reading
Carol Dweck's book Mindset explains the surprising power behind learning to alter self-limiting beliefs and build a growth mindset. | Continue reading
Precrastination is the compulsion to immediately work on new tasks, despite long-term costs and tradeoffs, and it can be just as harmful as procrastination | Continue reading
There are 10 Cognitive Distortions, types of negative self-talk that in the form of habits lead to consistent low mood. Learn how to recognize & change them | Continue reading
Why we worry is a perplexing question, especially since most of us realize that, at least in the long-term, it only makes us more anxious and miserable. | Continue reading
Decrease worry, jugmentalness, and other negative thinking patterns with Cognitive Restructuring, a powerful technique from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Continue reading
There are 3 traits of highly resilient people. And by studying them, we can learn to become more resilient in our own everyday lives. | Continue reading
By turning sleep into a life goal, we’ve paradoxically made it harder to simply fall asleep. It seems like we can’t go more than a couple of weeks without some kind of sleep hygiene post popping up in one of our social media feeds, yelling at us about the most important tips and … | Continue reading
If you want to build a consitent reading habit, these 19 powerful strategies and techniques will help you read more for life. | Continue reading
Emotional fitness means cultivating powerful habits and exercises you can use to improve your mental health, wellbeing and emotional balance. | Continue reading
The Ulysses Pact is a form of commitment device that helps us to build and maintain good habits and decisions despite future temptations. | Continue reading
There are three common psychological mistakes most people make when setting New Year's resolutions and goals. Learn how to avoid them and succed. | Continue reading
How I use a simple system of 3 little lists to organize my life, stay productive, and avoid stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. | Continue reading
Why we should learn to see stuckness as a central and driving factor in unhappiness plus suggestions for how to get unstuck regardless of particulars. | Continue reading
Mindfulness benefits us in many ways: Here are 15 of the most powerful benefits of minfulness meditation according to research and science. | Continue reading
3 simple steps you can take to practice gratitude every day even if you're lazy, busy, forgetful or otherwise have a hard time starting habits. | Continue reading
6 simple principles to help you achieve better emotional clarity and more successfully navigate negative emotions and moods. | Continue reading
6 simple principles to help you achieve better emotional clarity and more successfully navigate negative emotions and moods. | Continue reading
Learn how to use a Distractions List to stay productive and focused on your most important work for longer stretches of time. | Continue reading
Struggling to find your passion or purpose? These 5 practical questions from psychological research can help you find activities with high passion potential | Continue reading
Identity Diversification is the simple idea that a well-balanced set of investments in our identity leads to psychological well-being and mental health. | Continue reading
The trick to setting more effective goals is to change your definition of "goals" away from an outcome and instead make it a task. | Continue reading
There's a certain class of problems called paradoxical problems that aren't solvable through effort and hard work, and actually, are made worse. | Continue reading
What is Mental Minimalism? Like physical and digital minimalism, mental minimalism is a philosophy for being intentional about how we use our attention. | Continue reading
A 3-month digital declutter experiment to assess the benefits (and costs) of an extended period adhering to the philosophy of digital minimalism. | Continue reading
5 Practical tips to help you sleep well before a big day. Based on decades of science, these tips will help you feel better and perform when you need to. | Continue reading
Counter-intuitive strategies for using productive procrastination to beat procrastiantion and get more done with less effort. | Continue reading
Why we worry, despite knowing that it tends to make us feel anxious and miserable is, is a biot of a cunundrum for many. But there's a reason why... | Continue reading
a 100-day digital minimalism challenge to create a better relationship with your personal tech | Continue reading