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Self Tolerance
It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen th…
2 days, 4 hours ago
What Is Emotional Neglect? And How to Cope
Emotional neglect - the withholding of parental love during childhood - can have a psychological impact no less profound than other forms of abuse. B…
2 days, 5 hours ago
Not Liking One's Looks
Many of us inhabit bodies and faces that don’t look as we feel they should. It’s one of the most painful aspects of being human. Here are a few minut…
2 days, 5 hours ago
You Will Never Guess...
Advertising beautifully alerts us to the desirability lots of things we probably don't need that much of in our lives. For its part, art also alerts …
2 days, 6 hours ago
The Triumphs of Impotence
Impotence has been turned into a major medical problem and diagnosed as a psychological mishap of the first order. But it is also a very intriguing p…
2 days, 6 hours ago
To Have or Not to Have Children
When deciding whether or not to have children, we should acknowledge that we aren’t choosing either a ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ answer - merely deciding wh…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Unspoken Thoughts: Envy
We’re meant to be pleased for our friends when they do well. In theory. In reality, their success is often simply unendurable, acting as a reminder o…
2 days, 7 hours ago
POP CULTURE: Finer Celebrities
It’s easy to criticise modern societies for being ‘celebrity obsessed’. But the problem isn’t an interest in celebrity, it’s the sort of celebrities …
2 days, 8 hours ago
Envy of What's Ahead
Some of our feelings about how the world might be in a 100 years time and more are based on an unexpected feeling: envy. It’s almost humiliating to c…
2 days, 9 hours ago
How to recognise your patterns - and break free from them
We believe ourselves to be original at every turn while in fact we’re more commonly found rehearsing almost identical patterns in our choices and beh…
2 days, 9 hours ago