Therapy
9 articles
- Understanding Psychotherapy Through Research: CBT, Radical Acceptance, The Body Keeps the Score and Trauma Treatment How does cognitive behavioural therapy change the loop of thoughts? Where does 'radical acceptance' come from, and how much evidence is there for the trauma treatments described in The Body Keeps the Score? Major psychotherapies, organised with original sources and meta-analyses.
- The Complete Guide to Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and the PERMA Model A complete guide to Martin Seligman's positive psychology and the science of happiness, covering the PERMA model (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement), gratitude, using your strengths, and building resilience.
- The Complete Mindfulness Guide — What Neuroscience Tells Us About Meditation The science behind mindfulness: how it physically changes the brain, what the MBSR program involves, practical daily techniques (breath meditation, body scan, walking meditation, mindful eating), and honest advice for anyone starting from scratch.
- The Psychology of Coping Styles — Do You Confront Problems or Avoid Them? Why do people react so differently to the same stressful situation? Using Lazarus and Folkman's landmark stress and coping theory, this article explores five coping styles — problem-focused, emotion-focused, meaning-making, social support, and avoidance — and what determines which one actually helps.
- The Psychology of Resilience — Why Some People Bounce Back Stronger Faced with the same adversity, some people collapse while others recover and grow. Explore the four core components of psychological resilience, the neuroscience behind it, post-traumatic growth, and practical steps to build your own capacity to weather hard times.
- Small but Deadly Daily Trauma: Caring for the 'Small t' Great tragedies aren't the only forms of trauma. Learn to recognize and heal 'Small t' traumas and chronic stress that silently affect our well-being and growth.
- How Does Trauma Become Growth? The Mechanism of PTG Understand the psychological mechanism of moving beyond PTSD to Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). Explore 5 areas where pain can be transformed into a driving force for growth.
- The Science of Resilience — Why Some People Grow Stronger Through Adversity Is resilience something you're born with, or something you can build? Discover what psychology and neuroscience have revealed about how the resilient mind works — and the evidence-based practices that actually strengthen it.
- Bloodlines & Stardust: Healing Intergenerational Trauma You are not just an individual; you are the tip of an ancestral spear. Learn how to heal the wounds stored in your 4th House and DNA.