In addition to feeling awful, low self-confidence has negative effects in many areas of life: If your confidence is low, it’s harder to be honest and ask for what you want in a…
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Psychologist Reveals 3 Best Ways To React To An Angry Spouse
Dealing with other people’s anger can be challenging, confusing, and sometimes terrifying — especially if it’s someone we’re close to like a spouse, parent, or co-worker. In this article, I’m going to…
7 Dangerous Anxiety Myths Keeping You Anxious
I’m a psychologist who specializes in anxiety. And the single biggest reason I see people continue to struggle with anxiety is their mistaken beliefs about what anxiety is and how it works….
The One-Word Momentum That Will Instantly Transform Your Marriage
Janet Lansbury discusses the concept of Confident Momentum as it applies to positive parenting. She writes: Confident momentum has nothing to do with speed or rushing. It’s a positive, sometimes heroic kind…
Narcissistic Parents Assign Roles To Their Children — Which Is Yours?
If you grew up as the child of a narcissist, it is quite common for them to cast you into a certain role within the family that you can’t escape no matter…
4 Microhabits That Will Make You More Disciplined Than 98% Of People
When people think about discipline, the term willpower usually comes to mind — pushing yourself to work hard or stay focused. But if you observe highly disciplined people closely, you’ll notice something striking… Disciplined…
7 Major Emotional Mistakes Even The Most Stable People Make
Unfortunately, most people don’t know much about their emotions — either how they work or how to work with them healthily. As a result, they end up making the same emotional mistakes…
20 Sentences That Will Give You More Emotional Control Than 95% Of People
I always used to think emotional control meant gritting teeth and trying to bottle in my rage. Then, I wondered why I felt so out of control. Over the years, I learned…
12 Tiny Subtle Signs Of OCD
Did you know that 1.2 percent of Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? That might not sound like a lot, but it’s about the same number of Americans that live in Los…
Psychologist Reveals 5 Signs You Have A Dysfunctional Relationship With Your Emotions
As a psychologist, I’ve helped people work through just about every shape and size of difficult emotion. But across this huge variety of suffering — from panic attacks and depression to anger…