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Art and Empathy: Exploring the Connection
For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. If it’s a great movie, it lets...
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Deciphering Your Life Script: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Throughout our lives, we often find ourselves repeating patterns of behaviour, feeling trapped in certain roles, or experiencing...
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What Has Hollywood Taught Us About Love?
“I know in my heart, you’re the only one for me.” Runaway Bride.“None of that other stuff matters...
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Should You Leave The Relationship?
After investing our time, money, emotions (and possibly sanity) into a romantic relationship, we are hoping to receive...
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Emotional Intimacy: The What, Why & How
You have just come back from a really hard day at work. A lot of difficult thoughts and...
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Integrity & Its Effect on Mental Health
Do you often catch yourself not keeping your word – making excuses for being late, for not being...
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Narcissistic or Borderline Parent: Three Ways to Stop being a Caretaker
Therapist Yingli Wang explains how the caretaker dynamic can become unhealthy when a narcissistic or borderline parent is involved, and how to move beyond it.
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Dear Dania: Dealing with a Selfish Friend
Dear Dania, I have a friend who I’ve known for over a decade. Ironically, we (both men) bonded...
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Why Social Connection is So Important for Your Mental Health
Throughout our evolutionary history, living in groups has proven to enhance our chances of survival and reproduction. We...
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Self-Abandonment: Integration with Compassion
Are you having trouble trusting your choices? Do you hide feelings, emotions, beliefs, ideas, out of a desire...
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Are You Addicted to Chaos?
Exploring what it means to be addicted to chaos, Dania Akondo maps the symptoms and potential remedies for an unstable life.
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Affirmations: Change the Stories You Tell Yourself
Mariana Ghita draws on her own experience of battling negative thoughts, and how affirmations helped her improve her outlook on life.