Tag: mental health
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Overcoming Anxious Thoughts: Strategies for Personal Growth
Anxious feelings could come in the form of an inner voice that keeps raising questions, highlighting dangers in the situation or making negative predictions no matter what we do. This pessimistic inner voice usually focuses on safety from physical and social threat. Physical threat is not limited to life and death issues like accident or…
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The Importance of Compassion in Workplace Management
Work is an important part of our lives. On top of offering us financial incentives, work and career could be a source of self-esteem and positive input to our mental well-being. However, work environment that are incompatible with our personal lives or even contradictory to the values important for us could fuel a sense of…
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Focusing on Process: Overcoming Work Procrastination
As I sit in front of my computer, trying to work, I keep thinking about a recent discussion with my friend regarding how much of our work is replaceable by AI. It is a threatening idea that I feel uncomfortable to dwell on, for it can trigger lots of self-defeating thoughts and self-doubts. Yet the…
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Building Self-Compassion to Fight Depression
Depressive episodes could sometimes be experienced as an inner voice that keeps beating us up and criticizing our every moves. It can come in the form of self-attacking acts when we have difficulties feeling safe socially and internally. We might be concerned with others’ thoughts and feelings about us – for example, disapproval, blame, judgment…
Compassionate Living Psychology 