Why Optimists Can Achieve More
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When the worry-hour can be helpful for handling stress (1 minute read) In “When the worry-hour can be helpful for handling stress” continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from more serious stress and exhaustion symptoms. As mentioned earlier, in my daily work with people who have sought…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by debating with your inner critic” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings and heal self-destructive shame. Increase your self-esteem by debating with your inner critic: One way of reducing self-critical shame is to become more self-compassionate. An exercise that can help you…
Last week I introduced the timeline, a tool that per ce can bring much clarity to why you feel the way you do, why you are where you are today as well as what has to change to get back what you miss. This week we will work on it some more. This since it…
Earlier posts have been about how the interaction between a child and caretakers creates internal models for relationships that tend to be repeated in other close relationships and also colors the child’s basic attitude to others and also to self. This happens because the internal models develop into generalized expectations of how the child will…
Here, the post “Increase self-esteem by lessening shame using self-compassion” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings. Increase self-esteem by lessening shame using self-compassion: This post continues with how to manage disproportionate and painful shame. One of the treatment methods for painful shame is Compassion Focused Therapy developed by…
Happiness research can according to wikiversity.org be summarized in 10 points. Here are the first 5 of those: 1. Having a proactive life which includes continuously setting positive goals and tasks. Proactive people are 15% more satisfied with their lives than more passive people. 2. Having an active life with regular physical activity keeps both…