‘Don’t grow up!”: 8 parental prohibitions that spoil our lives
It happens, a person grew up in a favourable family, but in adulthood he has a series of unpleasant recurring events, everything goes downhill. He begins to ask himself the question: ‘Why?’ And the answer most often comes from childhood. Sometimes everything is explained by parental prohibitions, which inside us continue to operate all our […]
‘Tired of resting’: how much free time we really need
Five hours a day? Two? How much will make you happy, is it worth doing something useful during this time, and is it possible to overdo it with rest and make things worse? HOW MUCH FREE TIME PER DAY WE NEED Your work tasks are piling up like a snowball, there’s no time to […]
How to express anger correctly: 4 stages of living with negative emotions
Anger is the most unpredictable of our emotions. Just a second ago you wanted to cry from despair or irritation, and now your mind is blurred, sparks fly from your eyes from anger, your tongue says unpleasant things, and your palms clench into fists. Let’s find out whether it is always worth expressing your anger […]
5 exercises that will help you stop depending on other people’s opinions
Today, most people can choose their own path – for example, their values, their job, their environment, their place of residence. But along with this freedom came new challenges: we need to constantly adapt to change and compete in almost every sphere. In such conditions it is easy to spoil the relationship with oneself, falling […]
Sociophobia: fashionable or anxiety disorder?
Sociophobia – the fear of not being accepted by society – is a popular neurosis of our time. People suffering from it, mistakenly perceive this disorder as an unchangeable part of their personality. And some even deliberately cultivate emotional detachment, trying to seem more mysterious. But what is sociophobia really? REASONS FOR THE PREVALENCE OF […]
5 cases when you need to trust your intuition
Many people probably know the feeling when you feel in your gut that you are doing the right thing, or when you realise that a person is cheating, even though everyone around you is telling you that he or she is honest. The motivational speaker talks about cases when you can and should trust your […]
Mature woman: 7 signs of a psychologically mature person
What kind of ‘beast’ is a mature woman? Is it possible to consider yourself or, say, your friend as such? And is this state achievable at all? Our expert offers a checklist of psychological ‘adulthood’ as a reference point for those who seek to accumulate wisdom over the years. A mature woman is a person […]
Five signs of a strong woman
Housewife or career woman – it doesn’t matter. A woman’s strength is not in the role she chooses, but in the way she lives her life: who she takes care of and what she spends her time on. Are there any strong women in your environment? Or maybe you can call yourself one? Let’s find […]
How to learn to accept criticism: 4 psychological approaches to dealing with feedback
Constructive criticism is really no less valuable for development than praise and recognition. Only when people are emotionally overloaded due to personal and external crises, and social networks create the illusion that behind the screen there is always a character and not a living person, the line between criticism as such and insults to vent […]
5 most common things that stump people with very high IQs
Superintellectuals often fail at things that come easily to people of average intelligence. Shall we test it? It would seem that those who have been blessed by nature with outstanding intellectual abilities have many advantages in life compared to those who are not so fortunate in this sense. However, psychologists and psychotherapists are well aware […]