Two Favorite Ways To Beat Burnout
With all the back and forth of expectations and effort the past two years, “burnout” has become a buzzword worthy of its overuse. Those experiencing burnout are also more likely…
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Adults: It’s Time To Pay Attention To Your Own Lives
“Character — the ability to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” — Joan Didion, UC Berkeley ’56. With inspiration from the acclaimed…
Posted inCovid Grief and Loss Self-Help Students
4 Takeaways From A Therapist in 2021
“The psychology of returning” is a phrase I’ve come up with the describe this chapter in the pandemic. It’s such a big topic that I even created a talk around…
Go Find Your Wise Mind If It’s Gone Missing
As a tennis player, I occasionally mis-hit a ball on the frame instead of the strings (also known as a “shank”, the player therefore known as a “Shank-a-potamus”, and the…
Posted inAnxiety Covid Depression Relationships Self-Help Students
5 Simple Strategies for College Students
If you are on your undergraduate journey right now, you’re probably trying to have some form of a college experience during an ever-present pandemic. Whether it’s a return to familiar…
How to Help Your Student Face Another Pandemic School Year
A year and a half is a very long time for a child. For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, schooling meant sitting in front of a screen. Parents helped young…
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The Psychology of Returning: Inner World, Meet Outer World
This isn’t your basic comeback, what we are trying to do. I’ve written about personal comebacks before. This is more than recovering from the depression of so much loss, the…
Radical Acceptance! What Is It And How To Practice It
Having lived through a pandemic, we all learned a thing or two about radical acceptance without even knowing it. It took many of us weeks to months to accept the…
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Aging Well – What It Means And How to Do It
We know a lot about aging well, both physically and mentally — and this blog post is about that, looking through the lens of the past year. Does what we…
End of 2020…and now 2024: How To Deal
Update November 2024: This post is from December 2020, but the concepts remain the same as we close out 2024. See if you can use these road-tested ideas to get…