The holiday season brings families together. But when that togetherness stirs up past hurts, stress can replace any good tidings. Unhealthy family dynamics can overwhelm empaths and highly sensitive people who lack the same stress-blocking filters that others have. Empaths are emotional sponges who absorb the stress of others. Though everyone is susceptible to emotional… Continue reading The Seven-Step Guide to Beating Holiday Stress
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Thinking “I can do better” Improves Performance
Telling yourself “I can do better” really can really make you do better at a given task, according to a study published in June 2016 in Frontiers in Psychology. A release from the publisher notes that over 44,000 people took part in an experiment to discover what motivational techniques really worked. In conjunction with BBC… Continue reading Thinking “I can do better” Improves Performance