From butterflies to panic attacks, anxiety rarely feels like a friend. It makes you say dumb things when you want to be witty, choke when it’s time to be clutch, and curl up in a ball when life needs you to stand tall. Many of [...]
A couple of years ago, I heard a psychologist say that fiction has been shown to improve social interaction. At first, I felt justified. This meant there was function to all those hours I’d sunk into stories. Next, I felt curious… how did fiction help [...]
Whatever our personality, psychological maturity requires a balanced, varied skillset, and that means working to develop your areas of weakness. From a personality perspective, that means developing the parts of us that are against the grain of our typical personality... Hence this personality-based self-development series. [...]
Succeeding as an introvert might mean developing your extroverted side and capitalizing on the strengths your introversion brings you. I’ve struggled with appreciating the fact that I'm introverted. It just feels like so much of life and relationships are an uphill battle since outgoingness [...]
Before starting my Masters, I was interviewing folks in different fields to determine which jobs would fit me well. One friend, himself a psychotherapist for a few years, told me that school taught him very little relative to his practical experience. He gave a pretty [...]
This is a follow-up to my last post on villainy. Check out the bigger-picture post here. Anyone honest and humble should admit that they would at least be tempted to go the route of the villain should the circumstances be right. When we acknowledge that, [...]
The first few times I heard “self-care” it was in reference to things like bubble baths and red wine. Yeah... not really my thing. The popular talk around self-care often feels effeminate, even though most of us would agree in theory that self-care is good [...]
At its core, the Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy is all about freeing the mind. Ever found it difficult to focus on one thing because you have 37 others floating around your brain? What if I told you it's possible to hack your brain so [...]
Personality: does it change? And what does that mean for romance and career? It’s been a truism at weddings and marriage/dating/love conferences and messages: The person you marry will not be the person you are married to. My wife’s been married to five different people, [...]
Schedules mean stability and structure; both keys for productivity and mental health. If you don’t have a routine, are depressed and anxious, have trouble sleeping, maybe don’t even have a job or something to get you up in the morning, things can spiral out of [...]
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