Category Archives: Anxiety

Rumination-“If only”​ & “what if”​-Don’t take it personally.

Rumination: A Problem in Anxiety and Depression by :Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. Psychology Today April. 2016. Brain function plays a role in rumination in several ways, but one significant aspect of brain function relates to memory. People remember things that are related to each other in neural networks. And when people enter a 'woe is me'…
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You have two sources of intuition-are you using both?

How intuition works: In recent years science has discovered that there is intuition in the three brains. The Head brain, the Heart brain, and the Gut brain converse with each other and the latter two do this through intuition, in addition other methods of communication. What is Intuition? The Heart brain as a source of…
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What every student needs to know, but they don’t tell you.

What every student needs to know about studying and sitting for exams.   It is that time of year to reflect on our life, the past year and the coming one, particularly if you are facing a stressful year ahead. If we look at the following two charts you may feel they are contradictory, however,…
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Domestic violence -how “Walking on Eggshells” develops

WALKING ON EGG SHELLS-A PATHWAY TO LOSS OF SELF. This article is based on an adaption of Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point"-How little things can make a big difference. [2015 edition] Galdwell writes about how epidemics occur and states that three principles are present, namely: The Law of the Few. That in epidemics, a certain…
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