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Positive Self Help

Self-Regulation Through Reading: Can Books Calm the Anxious Mind? 

In a time of digital burnout and anxiety, reading a book can be one of the most extraordinary kinds of self-care. Reading is a restorative cognitive activity that provides a moment of calm without digital engagement, calms the nervous system,

Education

Psychology of Waiting: Why it feels forever When You’re Anxious

Waiting is a delay, a form of inaction. It is described as remaining idle while anticipating an event. Our perception of waiting is primarily influenced by two areas of the brain. (PsychCentral) As an alarm system, the amygdala sustains and

Awareness

Is Emotional Monitoring Making You Anxious? Here’s How to Tell

Emotional monitoring refers to the observation and analysis of how we are feeling. It helps one tune into his inner experiences to understand the process being undergone. Balanced, this leads to great awareness of the self and emotional intelligence. If

Self Help

Self-regulation Tips for People with Anxious Attachment

Therapy, emotional self-control, and spotting early warning signs of insecure attachment can help people with these attachment types. From childhood to adulthood, experiences mold people and, in the end, influence how they develop loving and wholesome interactions with others. According

Social

Social Fear: Why Do You Feel Anxious with Others

Social anxiety can occur because of many reasons. Sometimes the fear of being judged induces anxiety in the person. Due to this restlessness and anxiety pumping in the body, we feel apprehensive and tend to avoid people as much as

Positive Self Help

Getting anxious? Facing tough times? Get your hope back!

While no one ever said life would be easy, going through tough times might seem so impossible more because we are often just under prepared for how hard things can get and how to thrive through them. Now is the

Health

Wiring of an anxious brain and how to rewire it

Try to remember the time when you had to face an interview, appear for an important exam or give a presentation and notice everything that you were experiencing in your body and in your mind. All the situations mentioned above

Awareness

The Psychology of the Countdown Mindset: How Constant Time Monitoring Impacts Your Mind

Every morning, we start our day with an alarm and not the sun. Many people start their day by checking the clock, calculating how much time they slept or how much time is left before the first commitment. This habit

Awareness Self Help

When Resilience Backfires: When Constantly ‘Bouncing Back’ Leads to Burnout

In contemporary psychology, resilience has become synonymous with strength—the celebrated capacity to recover from adversity and preserve mental equilibrium in the face of disruption. Defined as the process of adapting well to significant stress, trauma or adversity  (American Psychological Association, 2020),

Awareness Parenting

Why Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Obsessive Thinking and Perfectionism

To live with an obsessive mind is to live in constant vigilance—a quiet and tiring attempt to create a form of stability in an unpredictable world. Obsessive thoughts and beliefs are intrusive, repetitive and inflexible ideas that contain uncertainty and ultimately signify