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Self-Control & Discipline in Families: Teaching Self-Regulation
When parents seek guidance on teaching self-regulation in their families, it is easy for them to get overwhelmed by advice on willpower, obedience, discipline, impulse [...]
Self-Control vs. Obedience: Helping Children Build Skills
Many parents expect their children to listen, follow rules, and behave appropriately. Obedience might seem like the goal of effective discipline. But while obedience creates [...]
Stress, Sleep & Self-Control in Families: Avoiding Meltdowns
You ask your child to do something simple, and instead of cooperation, you get pushback, tears, or silence. It’s easy to interpret this as defiance [...]
Positive Psychology Measures: How to Choose and Use Them
As a practitioner, coach, therapist, educator, or HR professional, you already know that what gets measured gets understood. Yet many practitioners using applied positive psychology [...]
Positive Social Media: How to Use It for Connection
Social media can affect our mood, self‑esteem, and sense of connection, but how do we move from feeling drained by our feeds to using them [...]
Digital Wellbeing: Breaking Free From Screen Overload
In the modern world, it is unlikely that we can completely detox from digital technologies, as they are integrated into our everyday lives. So, it [...]
Avoidant Attachment Style in Adults: Signs & Interventions
Avoidant attachment style does not always look the way we expect it to. It can show up as independence, composure, and capability, qualities that are [...]
Moving From Self-Criticism to Self-Acceptance: An ACT Guide
Negative thoughts are a normal part of being human, and struggling against them can create more suffering. One common example is self-criticism. Self-critique can be [...]
How to Practice Self-Acceptance With ACT
We all have thoughts sometimes like, “I’m not enough.” They’re normal thoughts and aren’t necessarily problematic. The problem lies in how you might respond. Many [...]
How to Improve Remote Engagement in Hybrid Work
Employees who are unengaged with their team leaders cannot attribute this to remote or hybrid work. As a social psychologist who has been working with [...]