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Dysregulation: Navigating Through Emotional Turmoil
As mental health professionals, we often find emotional dysregulation at the heart of our clients’ challenges. Like a yoyo, the ups and downs of emotions [...]
9 Childhood Trauma Tests & Questionnaires
Childhood trauma is a difficult topic to navigate. We don’t like to think, or talk, about children being hurt. But if we’re working with clients [...]
Circadian Rhythm: The Science Behind Your Internal Clock
Circadian rhythms are the daily cycles of our bodily processes, such as sleep, appetite, and alertness. In a sense, we all know about them because [...]
Childhood Trauma & Its Lifelong Impact: 12 Resources
Childhood trauma casts a long shadow, shaping the lives of individuals long after the events themselves have passed. As therapists, understanding the profound impacts of [...]
Halo Effect: Why We Judge a Book by Its Cover
Even though we may consider ourselves logical and rational, it appears we are easily biased by a single incident or individual characteristic (Nicolau, Mellinas, & [...]
How to Stop Procrastinating With 25 Tools
In today’s distraction-filled world, procrastination is a common challenge that can hinder productivity and success, and it can negatively impact our wellbeing. It is a [...]
Jungian Psychology: Unraveling the Unconscious Mind
Alongside Sigmund Freud, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) is one of the most important innovators in the field of modern depth [...]
Social Identity Theory: I, You, Us & We. Why Groups Matter
As humans, we spend most of our life working to understand our personal identities. The question of “who am I?” is an age-old philosophical thought [...]
Conscious Parenting: A Mindful Approach to Parenting
Parenting is one of the most enriching and challenging roles we can undertake in our lifetimes. There is a growing interest in alternative approaches to [...]
Contingency Theory: Mastering Leadership Flexibility
While most of us would recognize a great leader, few of us know what it takes to become one (Hill et al., 2022). And it’s [...]