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Relationship

Dating Someone with OCD: How to Navigate Rituals, Reassurance, and Anxiety Together

OCD, often known as obsessive compulsive disorder, is a chronic disorder, which means it is a long-term condition that is characterised by recurrent compulsions and intrusive,  unwanted thoughts (obsessions) to help relieve the anxiety that these thoughts create  (International OCD

Parenting Self Help

Generational Silence and Emotional Healing: Why Speaking Up Matters

Have you ever felt that certain things in your family are never spoken about? For many people,  speaking up in the family system might seem like an easy thing to do, like sharing a feeling,  giving an opinion, or dealing

Awareness Parenting

The Psychology Behind Preschool Screen Time: Balancing Learning and Overstimulation

Media exposure in preschool children presents the masses with both an opportunity for developmental stimulation and a risk for overstimulation. In today’s digital world, screens are certainly unavoidable, whether it be televisions, smartphones, tablets, or computers. A young child’s brain

Relationship Social

The Psychology of Instant Connection: Why Strangers Can Feel So Familiar 

We often feel a sense of familiarity and instant connection, even if we have met someone for the first time. It could be a total stranger, too. This is actually more psychologically baked than one might think. For example, if

Parenting Positive

The Psychology Behind Care, Compliance, and Childhood Emotional Needs

From the time a child is born till they grow up, parents are quite literally the primary source of validation, recognition and ultimately comfort. Being ‘good’ and being ‘obedient or compliant’ are often qualities that receive praise from society. For

Life Style Positive

What Different Cultures Teach Us About Healthy Grieving

Grief is perhaps the most universal of all human experiences. Still, the traditions or “rules” around how one is allowed to grieve, how far into the future, and what we do about it, vary enormously from one culture to another.

Positive

The Psychology Behind Soft Toys Attachment 

People commonly believe that soft toys exist only for children because they fill nursery shelves with colourful bears, and children use plush rabbits during their bedtime routines before bringing their stuffed companions to school for comfort. A hidden truth remains

Health

Angelman Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

Angelman Syndrome (AS) is most linked with genetic mutations of the UBE3A gene, located on chromosome 15, in the 15q11-q13 locus. The gene plays a role in neurodevelopment and has a parent-of-origin expression pattern. Maternal UBE3A is expressed in the

Parenting

The Psychology Behind Why Eldest Children Are Given More Responsibility

In some families and cultures, the eldest child (or firstborn) is responsible for “stepping up” and managing the younger siblings, providing an example to emulate, maintaining the household, and even acting as a young parent. This can build maturity and

Awareness

Cultural Trauma: How communities hold grief across generations 

When mass tragedies and historic events like the Holocaust, colonisation and genocide occur, it leaves a vast majority of people to collectively hold emotions in the form of grief and trauma that can taint our consciousness (Alexander, 2004). Here is