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Favorite Orgs for Essential Self-Efficacy Info American Psychological Association (APA) The APA is considered the leading organization for professional psychology, so you know you can trust their teaching tip sheet…
If you have any familiarity with the Salem Witch Trials, you already know something about mass hysteria, also known as mass psychogenic illness. Mass hysteria refers to an outbreak of…
Doomscrolling (or doomsurfing) is when you see or read sad, scary, or negative news online and continue consuming such information. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital news consumption increased by 35%,…
Favorite Optimism-Boosting Organizations Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Pursuing optimism can be incredibly difficult if you’re battling anxiety and depression. Please know that you’re not alone and specialized…
Much like traditions, heirlooms, hair color, and secret family recipes get passed down through families, people can also inherit trauma. Generational trauma—known as intergenerational or transgenerational trauma—is a cycle of…
Good things really do come to those who wait. Tapping into your patient side has its fair share of potential benefits for your physical and mental health, research suggests. Patience…
Willpower is a person’s ability to control their own actions in order to pursue long-term goals. Other names for this concept include self-control, discipline, and resolve. However, psychologists have differing…
Where is your power center? Is it in you or in other people or circumstances? Paradoxically, controlling people often believe that they don’t have control over their lives or even…
Source: Pixabay Well-being is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, high life satisfaction, a sense of meaning or purpose, and the ability to…
When facing ache, sorrow, or uncertainty, how do you respond? Do you lash out, railing versus the injustices of the globe? Or withdraw to nurse your grief and distress in…