Category: Wellness
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A Simple (But Useful) Way to Reframe Self-Talk
After a hard day, many of us reach for the same shorthand: I’m a mess, or I’m so wrong about this. It seems to be just how we talk to ourselves. But those automatic phrases carry more psychological weight than we realize. That’s why cognitive-based therapeutic approaches focus on reframing self-talk: we can be our…
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Empathy Is Never the Cause of Emotional Abuse
Recently, I have been lurking online, and I can’t believe that I need to address this. There’s a common misconception that abusers only target people with empathy, leading some to frame empathy as the reason emotional abuse happens to certain people. First, stop shaming the victims! Second, to survivors: you are beautifully empathetic souls. Don’t…
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The Paradox of Revenge: Mission Impossible for Abuse Survivors
Hear me out: I get it. As survivors, even just the mental picture of slapping abusers (and their crew) in the face or watching their hideous true colors revealed in a public exposée can give us an instant dopamine rush. But in reality, many brave and beautiful reborn souls face a paradox of revenge that feels…
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Co-Regulation: One of the Best Things You Can Do with Someone
Have you noticed that your partner’s steady voice or a friend’s warm hug can calm down a rising panic? Or, when you sing a lullaby to an infant, you feel soothed too? Those moments, in fact, may biologically shape our emotional lives. What Is Coregulation Coregulation is a type of emotional regulation where one person’s…
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Cognition, Communication, Culture, Feature, Personal Growth, Psychology, Self-Care Essentials, WellnessLearning a New Language Is Beneficial to the Brain
For most people, learning a second language is a practical decision: career advancement or immigration. What tends to get less attention is what the process is doing to the brain in the background. But there are many benefits of learning a new language that can change the brain structure. Over the past decades, research on…
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