Why We Put Things Off
Procrastination is one of the most common forms of maladaptive behavior. Explore the various causes, plus methods for combatting the tendency to put important things off.
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Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Signal of Your Life
Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billion dead stars whose signal light is only now reaching us, I found myself trembling with the parallel to life itself: The great…
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The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In…
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The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.” “On how one orients himself to the moment,” 48-year-old Henry Miller (December 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) wrote in reflecting on the art…
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Can Therapy Help With Compulsive Behaviours?
Can therapy help compulsive behaviours? Learn how a gentle, collaborative approach can explore patterns, reduce shame and support lasting change at your pace.
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How To Get My Life Back On Track
After a hot chaotic summer, you might be wondering, “How do I get my life back on track?” Or, maybe you are just interested in a few simple shifts to adjust a new season or schedule. One… The post How To Get My Life Back On Track appeared first on Be More with Less.
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How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Breaking
We are creatures fragmentary but indivisible, each of us a whole that is always simpler than its parts, but complicated by the struggle for a living unison between them. Nothing betrays our partitions more plainly than our promises. False promises — those people make not intending to keep — are easier to comprehend, for they…
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The Lindsay Clancy Case: Examining Postpartum Psychosis
Personal Perspective: When the mental health system fails a mother struggling with postpartum psychosis, the outcome can be fatal.
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Are You Too “Busy” to Connect?
A busy social calendar doesn’t create connection; that comes from feeling known, supported, and like you can be yourself with others.
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5 Reasons We Still Judge Women Who Date Younger Men
Not every age-gap relationship is created the same, and the situation is complicated by society’s tendency to treat women’s aging like a ticking clock.
