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Not fight, flight or freeze, but fawn
There’s a way of responding to threats that involves appeasement. Recognising this has helped me stop people-pleasing.
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5 months, 3 weeks ago
After the cod
I was a child when Newfoundland’s fishing collapsed. Will I see the same happen to human connection?.
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5 months, 4 weeks ago
How to bring up pet peeves in your relationship
Inevitably, your partner will get on your nerves. A couples therapist explains how to talk about it well – and be heard.
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5 months, 4 weeks ago
The uncanny feeling that a dead person is still close by
The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?.
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5 months, 4 weeks ago
How to stop your life playing on repeat
Those frustrating patterns you keep experiencing might be because of your schemas – and there’s a therapy that can help.
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6 months ago
The kids forgotten by calls to ban phones
Campaigns calling for smartphone-free childhoods might be well meaning, but the choice is not so simple for all families.
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6 months ago
Have online worlds become the last free places for children?
Children have lost the freedom to explore and play independently. They now seek out autonomy in digital landscapes.
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6 months ago
How to practise a musical instrument
Everything that involves skill requires practice. Use the AIR method – awareness, isolation, repetition – to improve.
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6 months ago
A prescription for randomness
Rediscovering an André Breton essay about the value of embracing randomness, I realised this has been my life philosophy.
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6 months ago
Romila Thapar: doyenne and dissenter
The great historian came of age at the end of British rule in India. Now 94, she continues to defy a regime determined to forget the pluralism and di…
6 months ago