It feels like our world is deeply polarized. We seem to fundamentally disagree with so many people – and with those disputes comes anger and hatred. Can anything bridge these yawning divides? It turns out that we aren’t as divided as all that. Our minds often fool us into thinking we disagree with people more […]
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Linguistic relativity theory suggests that the languages we use influence how we think. Because languages have different structures and words to describe the world, people pay attention to different things when speaking them – from here stems the idea that language shapes thought.
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Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks explains the top 4 mental health conditions with the highest heritability (greatest genetic influence). She discusses what heritability means, the role of environmental triggers, and how knowing your family history can help you prioritize your mental health.
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Forrest explores how we can harness perfectionism’s strengths without getting captured by its vulnerabilities with therapist and author Katherine Morgan Schafler. They talk about perfectionism’s bad branding, and how our relationship with perfectionism can lead to it being either a superpower or a stumbling block. They discuss the different types of perfectionists, the limitations of
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Welcome back to a brand new season of Owning It. Join me and author/scientist/lawyer Anu Gupta to talk about the role and relationship between bias and anxiety, the impact bias on us and others and how it’s at the root of almost every social and cultural issue we experience.
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Dr Laurie HATES boredom! Since childhood she’s found it so painful that she’ll do anything to avoid being bored. She’ll watch crappy TV. She’ll find extra work to do. She’ll snack. But boredom is actually an incredibly useful tool to boost our happiness and creativity. With the help of leading boredom experts, Dr Laurie learns
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Business Insider asked three clinical psychologists to debunk 25 of the most common myths about mental health and therapy. They explain that schizophrenia is not about having multiple personalities and that obsessive-compulsive disorder is not just about being neat. They also delve into therapy — explaining that it’s not like having a paid friend and
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Sometimes people cross our paths that provide the perspective and language to deepen our understanding of our own journeys. Dr. Jim Lucey is one of those people and we were lucky enough to cross paths when he spoke at the Grow Mental Health National Weekend. Dr. Lucey spoke about the true power of story in
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Burnout is your reaction to prolonged stress that leads to mental fatigue, emotional apathy, and physical exhaustion. While most people think of burnout as a result of too much work, it can also get to us outside the office—and tends to unfold in 5 stages: Honeymoon, onset of stress, chronic stress, burnout, and habitual burnout.
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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore one of the most interesting concepts in psychology: Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow. The shadow includes the “the things a person has no wish to be,” the uncomfortable aspects of ourselves that we deny or ignore. Facing those parts can be difficult, but becoming aware of the shadow, accepting
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In the 1980’s a German psychologist, Kuno Beller, noticed that many children in kindergarten got sick, as a result of the emotional stress caused by the sudden separation from parents. In a set of experiments inspired by John Bowlby’s Attachment theory and Mary Ainswroth’s Strange Situation, Beller devised a transition model that allowed children to
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