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Maladaptive Coping: 15 Examples & How to Break the Cycle
I know I’m procrastinating. I’ve checked my email twice and scrolled through social media for more than an hour. And yet, I’m still writing the [...]
What Is Leadership Coaching (Incl. Certification Options)
Can coaching change your life? When Justin started working at Facebook, he learned he was “rubbing people the wrong way” (Rosenstein & Schwartz, 2019). His [...]
15 Ways to Give Negative Feedback, Positively (+ Examples)
Negative feedback can be hard to handle and, when poorly delivered, unhelpful. While we have all been on the receiving end of criticism – that [...]
How to Deal With Anxiety: 5 Coping Skills and Worksheets
At some point, each of us will experience anxiety and stress. Recognizing that you are experiencing anxiety is the first healthy step toward learning how [...]
12 Radical Acceptance Worksheets For Your DBT Sessions
“Wasn’t me!” she said with a guilty smile. Denial is a powerful defense mechanism. Some people rely more heavily on denial in a crisis situation [...]
Intuition Training: 5 Exercises to Strengthen Intuition
What made you decide to read this article? Perhaps you saw the title and just had a gut feeling that it would prove useful to [...]
What Is Motivational Interviewing? A Theory of Change
Conversations about change occur all the time. They can be related to just about anything and can happen with friends and family or with a [...]
15 Ways to Find Your Purpose of Life & Realize Your Meaning
Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the [...]
Living With the Inner Critic: 8 Helpful Worksheets (+ PDF)
We all know this voice in our head that constantly criticizes, belittles, and judges us. This voice has many names: inner critic, judge, saboteur, the [...]
Marriage Counseling Toolkit: 30 Couples Therapy Worksheets
While research confirms that marriage leads to increased life satisfaction, it is not without its challenges (Boyce, Wood, & Ferguson, 2016). Indeed, according to the [...]