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3 Burnout Prevention Strategies for Type A Personality
Highly driven, goal-oriented, and somewhat impatient? You may be dealing with a Type A personality. Having a Type A personality comes with a mixed bag [...]
High-Functioning Autism: 23 Strengths-Based Daily Worksheets
Autism diagnoses are rising exponentially. A study by Russell et al. (2022) reported a 787% increase in UK diagnoses between 1998 and 2018. Similarly, 1 [...]
Type B Personality Advantages: Stress Less, Achieve More
Type B personalities, known for their relaxed, patient, and easygoing nature, offer unique advantages in both personal and professional contexts. There are myriad benefits to [...]
Breaking Generational Trauma With Positive Psychology
Generational trauma, the enduring legacy of past adversities that reverberates through familial lines, presents profound challenges to mental and emotional wellbeing. Within the realm of [...]
8 Strategies to Transform a Scarcity Mindset
Scarcity mindset, also referred to as poverty mindset, is fast being recognised as a challenge to mental health and wellbeing. Authors and TEDTalkers are all [...]
Urge Surfing: How Riding the Wave Breaks Bad Habits
We all experience cravings, sometimes daily. For some, it might be chocolate, caffeine, or social connection, while for others, it can be more serious, including [...]
8 Leadership Assessment Tools to Uncover Hidden Strengths
Leaders are everywhere: they help build organizations, steer institutions, and govern our societies. Yet recent governmental and organizational scandals across the globe highlight a worrying [...]
Anxious Attachment Style: What It Is (+ Its Hidden Strengths)
In the realm of human relationships, attachment styles shape our perceptions of intimacy and emotional fulfillment. Anxious attachment style, a type of insecure attachment characterized [...]
Toxic Stress: 6 Signs & Positive Ways to Cope
What exactly is toxic stress, and why does it matter? Stress seems to be an inevitable feature of our urgent, fast-paced, and technology-saturated lives. We [...]
Analyzing & Interpreting Your Clients’ Body Language: 26 Tips
Darwin was one of the first individuals to explore the concept of body language in Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He studied [...]