When Your Employee Tries to Outsmart You
Does an employee try to outsmart you? Take these steps maintain (or regain) control.
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Is Family Enmeshment Really Pathological?
What if family enmeshment isn’t universally pathological? The same behavior may reflect different psychological processes across cultures, challenging assumptions of psychotherapy.
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How to Think for Yourself Using the Grit–Grace Scale
When life feels uncertain and you no longer trust yourself, how do you know what to do? Discover a framework for rebuilding confidence in your own judgment.
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Announcing my book: After Anger
Readers, I’m delighted to announce that my first book is officially scheduled for publication! It’ll come out in November but you can preorder it now, and I would really like to encourage you to do so if you’re interested: preorder numbers encourage bookstores to order more copies, which will help the book do well. I…
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1980s Culture Wars: Think of the Children
8Having fought in them since the 1980s, I know that America’s culture wars never change. My early tours of duty in the culture wars were on the gaming fronts, and I was forced into the fight during the 1980s. And have been fighting ever since. The culture warriors who start wars are usually unimaginative and…
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A Gentle Guide to Online Counselling Sessions
Use this guide to online counselling sessions to understand what happens, how to prepare, and how private therapy can offer calm, compassionate support.
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The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration
Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and collapses into chaos in order to rebuild itself around a new organizing principle — there are such times in every human life, times…
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How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” What does love mean, exactly? We have applied to it our finest definitions; we have examined its psychology and outlined it in philosophical frameworks; we have even devised a mathematical formula for attaining it. And yet anyone who has ever taken this wholehearted…
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De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul.” “Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book,” Patti Smith wrote as she contemplated time and transformation….
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4 Core Components of Resilience
Resilience is not a single or fixed trait. By working on its four core components, which anyone can learn, you can boost it over time.
