Confirmation Bias: Seeing What We Want to Believe

Believe it or not, we can’t always trust what we see or hear. It seems our memory is influenced by our expectations (Eysenk & Keane, 2015). Confirmation bias is a widely recognized phenomenon and refers to our tendency to seek out evidence in line with our...

Personal Development Goals: Helping Your Clients Succeed

Personal Development Goals: Helping Your Clients Succeed

5 Methods for Dealing With Setbacks & Building Resilience Setbacks are inevitable on the path to personal growth. For coaches and therapists, it’s crucial to equip clients with strategies for overcoming obstacles and building resilience. Encouraging a growth...

How to Let Go & Why It’s So Important for Wellbeing

How to Let Go & Why It’s So Important for Wellbeing

What Is Letting Go? Letting go is a spiritual and/or psychological process that requires relinquishing or lessening our attachment to outcomes, desires, and expectations and accepting what is. At its core lies the concept of nonattachment, a principle that is central...

Taming Temper Tantrums: Behavior Management for Toddlers

Taming Temper Tantrums: Behavior Management for Toddlers

Understanding Temper Tantrums and Other Behavior Problems Children are always changing, as are their more difficult behaviors. And so, it’s helpful to distinguish the temper tantrums of toddlers from the problem behavior of older children. Toddler tantrums Temper...

Learning Disabilities: 9 Types, Symptoms & Tests

Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Sylvester Stalone, Thomas Edison, and Keanu Reeves. What do all of these individuals have in common? They have all been diagnosed with a learning disability. What are learning disabilities, and how can these people be successful...

Guiding With Warmth and Firmness

Guiding With Warmth and Firmness

What Does the Research Say? Authoritative parenting has a positive impact on the wellbeing and development of the child, and research even suggests it is the ideal parenting style, providing healthy child adjustment to existing and future environments (Sanvictores...

Quotes & Books for Healthy Relationships

Quotes & Books for Healthy Relationships

Books About Setting Healthy Boundaries Recapping what we mean when we talk about boundary setting, our article called How to Set Healthy Boundaries provides a detailed description of what it means to set boundaries and how to do it. Relationship boundaries are...

The Art of Positive Change

The Art of Positive Change

5 Theories, Frameworks & Models Before introducing several influential theories, frameworks, and models of change, it is helpful to identify six factors that combine to make up positive change (Dhiman & Marques, 2020): Showing up – Trust that your presence is...

10 Risk and Protective Factors

10 Risk and Protective Factors

3 Psychosocial Influences on Teenagers’ Mental Health Gene–environment–development models show that the dance between puberty, neurodevelopment, and psychosocial changes specific to adolescence are drivers of mental health risk and resilience (Pfeifer & Allen,...

Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit

Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit

Holistic Treatment Techniques for Specific Conditions Holistic therapy offers effective treatment options for a variety of specific conditions. With limited side effects, treatment techniques can provide options that offer relief, healing, and lasting health...

13 Methods to Foster It

13 Methods to Foster It

Understanding Self-Empowerment Self-empowerment is more than just a buzzword; it’s a fundamental aspect of psychological wellbeing and resilience. At its core, self-empowerment involves a process in which people gain control over their lives, learn to find a closer...