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Human Being v. Human Doing
Read more: Human Being v. Human DoingJim Taylor, PhD asks, Are you raising a human being or a human doing? Having internalized their perceptions of being a human doing from their parents, children come to love themselves only when they are successful and experience nothing less than self-loathing when they fail. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Po Bronson sounded the alarm about…
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Stress Strikes Again
Read more: Stress Strikes AgainA study finds a genetic link between stress, obesity, and diabetes. ‘We showed that the actions of single gene in just one part of the brain can have profound effects on the metabolism of the whole body,’ says Chen. This mechanism, which appears to be a ‘smoking gun’ tying stress levels to metabolic disease, might,…
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Los Angeles Therapist
Read more: Los Angeles TherapistLooking for a therapist in Los Angeles? Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life in the city, finding the right therapist can make all the difference. Centrally Located in Los Feliz I’m an LCSW with an office conveniently located on Hillhurst Ave, at the foot of Griffith Park,…
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How Not to Raise a Bully
Read more: How Not to Raise a BullyFrom Time.com: How Not to Raise a Bully. (In short: teach empathy.) Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes — has…
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Happiness and Stuff
Read more: Happiness and StuffFrom PsyBlog: Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is Unsatisfying re why stuff doesn’t make you happy. Unless… [T]hinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook,…