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Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving
“It’s normal and natural to not be able to just go on as usual.” Author R.O. Kwon normalizes the grief process that we’re all going through during this time of...
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That Discomfort You're Feeling Is Grief:
In a time of unprecedented unknowns, there is immense power in the ability to name what we are feeling. While social distancing has us each wrestling with our own emotions, there may be an underlying...
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The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why.
Image from Design For Dreaming (1956) In this National Geographic article by Rebecca Renner, “researchers explain why withdrawal from our usual environments—due to social distancing—has left dreamers...
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Race, Trauma, and the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, Dr. Adaobi Anyeji offers advice for coping with racism. "Racism has emotional consequences for many people of color that include anger, fear, shame, and hopelessness/powerlessness ....
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What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others
In this article, author Eileen Zimmerman writes: How to Build ResilienceInterviews with large numbers of highly resilient individuals — those who have experienced a great deal of adversity and have...
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How To Show Kids the Joy of Reading
CAMILO HUINCA NATALIE WEXLERDeloris Fowler had seen educational reforms come and go. Then one of them surprised her.Editor’s Note: In the next five years, most of America’s most experienced teachers...
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Election Distractor
Some very practical help for all of that Election Day angst: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/style/election-stress-relief.html
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People Have The Power
Here’s a lift for anyone who needs it, courtesy of Patti Smith..“what we wanted to do was remind the listener of their individual power but also of the collective power of the people, how we can do...
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The Therapeutic Power of Gardening
A lovely story about a British psychotherapist and her husband, a landscape designer, and how they find peace in the life cycle of their garden…
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Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health
As the pandemic continues, many of us will be trying to cope with profound stress without the comfort of touch. We all have different needs and boundaries (McGlone says “not everyone suffers from a...
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3 Ways to Regulate Your Emotions
"Emotion regulation — the processes by which individuals influence their emotions — has been the subject of a wealth of psychological research. These processes may be automatic and without our...
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What You Can Do When Life Is Overwhelming
Three things you can do to find stability in the Midst of Chaos: Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychoanalysis-unplugged/202102/what-you-can-do-when-life-is-overwhelming Permalink
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Bad Dog -Why live with a difficult animal? By Anna Heyward
A beautiful, sad story about living with a difficult animal, which also seems to apply to living with difficult humans. Illustration by Jo Zixuan ZhouSource:...
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Stop Asian American Hate!
The STOPAAPIHATE.ORG website is a resource to stand against Asian American Pacific Islander Hate, where you can report hate incidents, learn about safety tips and rights, donate and more. “In response...
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Watch: 30 minutes of relaxing visuals from Studio Ghibli
Calm down and be mesmerised by therapeutic scenes from ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, ‘Ponyo’, ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ and more...
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American Psychological Association opposes transgender conversion “therapy”...
We have a long way to go, but we’re heading in the right direction… Source:...
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The Roller Coaster of Creative Living
written by: Jason Karasev, MA For many creative professionals life can be a never-ending roller coaster. A career in the arts is subjective, competitive and you often have to “know someone to get...
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Martha Beck: The Way of Integrity
Martha Beck: The Way of IntegrityIn this Super Soul podcast episode, Oprah talks to Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author Martha Beck about her latest...
View ArticleOn Being Video: The Esther Perel Love Lexicon
This short animated film taken from a recent Esther Perel interview is a gem for anyone navigating relationships and intimacy. We hope you enjoy.
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On Being Episode with Dr. Christine Runyan
We recommend this On Being episode with Dr. Christine Runyan, clinical psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School:"The light at the end of the COVID tunnel is tenuously appearing -...
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