11 Smart Ways to Rock Your PhD: Advice from a recent graduate
If you’re starting a PhD or muddling your way through a PhD, you’re probably terrified, overworked, and underpaid. Completing a PhD or a Master’s degree can feel like a calling—it can provide hope, better earning potential, pursuit of valuable knowledge, and self-fulfillment.
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Are you struggling with body image? Do you look at body positive ads and feel hopeless? Do you want to make peace with your body but just don’t know how?. Standing in front of the mirror, scrutinizing my body, picking at the parts I don’t like, spiraling into the dark black hole that is body dissatisfaction.
Read full storyOne Simple, Yet Effective, Hack for Burnout
Put the joy back in your life with this one easy hack. I personally suffer from the Sunday Scaries. Come Sunday evening, I am deadass unprepared for Monday. I watch the clock, praying that tomorrow never comes. I do everything possible to make time move more slowly.
Read full storyYou Can't Run From Your Feelings - But You Can Use Them to Build a Happier Life
Anger. Grief. Shame. Guilt. Sadness. Envy. These emotions feel so scary. They make us feel isolated. They’re painful. They cut sharp and deep. So our first instinct is to run away. We stifle them. We bury them deep within ourselves to hide them from the world, hide them from ourselves.
Read full storyTransformative Quotes for Healing: Literary nourishment for your mental health
As a child, I found magic in books. The crinkle of the paper, the rough pages between my fingers, and the slightly dirty feel of a well-loved library book. The way the author could capture exactly what I was feeling when I couldn’t find the words. The way their words fit into my soul like a puzzle piece.
Read full storyIgnore This Popular Writing Advice: Add value instead
Writing is really challenging, and writers are always trying to improve. The good news is, there is a ton of writing advice out there. But the bad news is, there is a ton of writing advice out there. It's really challenging to filter helpful advice from the sea of information that is floating around the internet. Especially when that information is coming from popular writers.
Read full storyLevel Up Your Mindfulness Practice: Create habits that stick.
Let’s say you suffer from anxiety. You want to focus more. You want to pay more attention to your relationships. You have trouble sleeping. You just want to improve your well-being.
Read full storyTreat Your Anxious Thoughts Like Internet Pop-Up Ads: How to create your own anxiety antivirus software
Before pop-up blockers, you’d be surfing the internet, minding your own business, when this pesky advertisement would pop onto your screen. The ad takes over the whole screen — you can’t see around it. You can’t ignore it.
Read full storyI Left My Abusive Partner - Perfectionism
I view myself as a recovering perfectionist. Growing up, you could have spotted me as a perfectionist from a mile away. I got straight A’s (mostly) in school, took Advanced Placement (AP) classes, was enrolled in various clubs, and was married to gymnastics. I was so invested in my gymnastics marriage that I earned a full scholarship to compete at a Division I university.
Read full storyWhy Your Diet Isn't Working - Here is the Science
You know the diet routine. You decide you want to change your body. You research the most updated diet. You write exercise plans. You rid your house of your favorite foods. You steele yourself to be “good” and stick to the regimen.
Read full storyNot Your Mother's Hiccup Remedy - My Foolproof Solution
We can all agree that hiccups are one of the most uncomfortable sensations. You can be going about your day, minding your own business, and out of nowhere, you feel this violent contraction in your belly and throat. With a weird sound to boot. Yuck.
Read full story4 Personal Lessons From the Las Vegas Shooting
Trigger warning: this piece contains details about mass-shooting events that might trigger some readers. I’m sitting on my three-seater couch in our little Las Vegas condo watching TV with my husband. I’m about to go upstairs to sleep. My phone buzzes. It is one of my best friends, telling me to turn on the news. I laugh. I think, “Wow, I bet they’re covering some dummy doing something stupid on the strip.”
Read full story5 Questions Self-Aware People Don’t Ask During the Holidays
For many of us, the holidays are the most stressful time of the year. Holidays represent a time where we get to reconnect with friends and family and update them on our lives. Unfortunately, this sets us up for awkward questions about what we have (or haven’t) accomplished during the year.
Read full story3 Science-Backed Tips You Need For Imperfect Writing
How to challenge perfectionism in your writing — advice from a therapist. I wanted to start writing for years. But I let perfectionism end my writing career before it even started.
Read full story10 Myths Holding You Back From The Relationships You Want—And How To Fight Back Against Them
I work as a therapist — and in my office, I see many people with mistaken beliefs about relationships. These beliefs are learned early in life and are difficult to break. They might be protective in the short-term, but at a certain point they cause conflicts at work, in friendships, with families, and especially in romantic relationships. And the hardest part is that these beliefs are pervasive. Which is why you need to challenge them.
Read full story4 Ways to Love Your Body Through Quarantine
Quarantine has presented unique challenges for all of us. Among those challenges, people are feeling more dissatisfied with their bodies than ever. I interviewed Dr. Kristin Wyatt, a psychologist from Duke University Medical Center. She noted that COVID-19 has greatly increased the number of people showing body dissatisfaction and problematic food behaviors.
Read full storyHow To Survive Fatphobic Comments Over the Holidays - Insights from a psychology expert
The holidays are incredibly stressful. In fact, 88% of Americans view the holidays as the most stressful time of the year. Unfortunately, this stress includes being exposed to a barrage of negative body talk, fat-shaming, and food-shaming over holiday breaks.
Read full storyHow To Survive Political Conversations Over The Holidays: Insights from a doctor of psychology
We are entering an unprecedented holiday season. A rapidly spreading coronavirus is peaking and again threatening to overwhelm the health system. We are more politically polarized than ever. Add in surmounting holiday stress, and there is bound to be tension during the holidays.
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