Emotions and wellbeing
Hope, grief, happiness and self-deception: pieces to help you understand what you feel.
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- Mind, brain and medication
- Going to therapy
Emotions and wellbeingA case of dysthymia
Pablo came to therapy for a hand tremor, but there was more: a quiet, chronic sadness. How dysthymia is spotted and treated, step by step.
Emotions and wellbeingAnd the world stood still
Written in the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown: fear, uncertainty, collective panic and the solidarity that emerged when the world came to a halt.
Emotions and wellbeingAre we designed to be unhappy? It seems so
Hedonic adaptation, optimism bias and constant dissatisfaction: why happiness has an expiry date and what you can do to live more in the here and now.
Emotions and wellbeingBody image and social media
Comparing yourself with edited Instagram bodies fuels eating disorders. How body image distortion and social media are worked on in therapy.
Emotions and wellbeingGuilt
Healthy guilt pushes us to make amends; irrational guilt becomes a useless burden that keeps us stuck. When it happens and how therapy works with it.
Emotions and wellbeingHope
Why do we welcome the New Year with joy when we have no idea what it will bring? Hope as a driving force in life and a clever strategy of the mind.
Emotions and wellbeingHow do I help a child through grief?
How to explain a death to a child and support them through grief: simple guidelines on honesty, funerals, emotions, guilt and affection.
Emotions and wellbeingKintsugi
A ficus that survived a parasite and the Japanese art of mending with gold: why, after overcoming a problem, you're not the same but stronger.
Emotions and wellbeingMyths about emotions
There are no right or wrong emotions, and they don't come out of nowhere. Six mistaken beliefs about emotions that make us feel worse than we need to.
Emotions and wellbeingMyths about happiness
Knowing what happiness is doesn't bring us closer to it. We look at the main myths about happiness and two factors that make it harder to achieve.
Emotions and wellbeingThe art of letting go
Why is it so hard to walk away from jobs, relationships or ideas that hurt us? The two stages of letting go: making the decision and sticking to it.
Emotions and wellbeingThe butterfly's lesson
Like a butterfly that must struggle out of its cocoon, everyone has their own pace of change. Why forcing it, in life or in therapy, rarely works.
Emotions and wellbeingWhat Is It About Holidays?
Breaking the routine, switching off, time for yourself and a fresh perspective: why holidays are such a powerful psychological boost and why we need them.
Emotions and wellbeingWhen Do We First Become Capable of Feeling Jealous?
Can babies feel jealous? Some studies say yes, from around 6 months. What jealousy is, how a baby shows it and what purpose it serves.
Emotions and wellbeingWhy Do We Lie, and What For?
Lying isn't always selfish or harmful: self-deception, white lies, social desirability... The functions that lying serves for human beings.
Emotions and wellbeingWhy we need things to look forward to
Enthusiasm moves mountains. Why we need small, everyday things to look forward to, and what happens when we lose the ability to get excited about life.