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Welcome to our space dedicated to well-being news! Here, you will find informative articles, well-being tips and the latest scientific research to improve your daily life.
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Cognitive distortions
Every day we must understand the reality around us. All our psychological processes will be activated in the context of different situations: whether decision-making processes, emotions, understanding, evaluation... But these processes can be erroneous and limited by cognitive distortions.
Fear of abandonment
The fear of abandonment is a major anxiety linked to the idea that we do not deserve the love of others and that we will quickly be rejected. This anxiety has a significant impact on your life. It causes anxiety and psychological suffering. You sometimes have reactions of isolation, irritability, jealousy, aggressiveness that you do not always understand towards the people you love. A fear of abandonment eats away at the little joys you can have in your daily life.
Impostor syndrome: definition, signs, origins and how to break free
Doubting your place despite your achievements, putting your successes down to luck, fearing being found out: the definition of impostor syndrome, its signs, causes, what studies say and ways to break free.
Improve your concentration
Knowing how to concentrate is not something innate, you have to learn to develop it. And yet, it is the key to our development in our personal and professional life, and will help you achieve your goals. Therefore, it will bring you personal satisfaction and pride of accomplishment. However, it is not easy to cut ourselves off from all surrounding or internal distractors and pay particular attention only to our objective. Here are some tips on how to improve your concentration.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
What if your own development was not only dependent on you but on the fundamental needs present for every human being? What if understanding your needs made it easier to get closer to a feeling of well-being? Learn about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Mindfulness meditation
When we are overwhelmed by our thoughts, mindfulness meditation is a breath of fresh air to find our bearings.
Self-determination
What if completing a task didn't depend solely on you? What if your personality was governed by fundamental psychological needs and responding to them leads you to personal fulfillment? Being self-determined means being able to respond to a feeling of freedom, interest, valuation and acceptance at the same time. Self-determination is then fundamental to our well-being.
Self-stigma
Belonging to a minority group can be a source of great suffering. Most often, this suffering comes from outside, from majority groups or other minority groups. But the stress and suffering felt in relation to this status can also come from within. Low self-esteem, dysfunctional beliefs, repetition of toxic patterns, self-stigma adds additional suffering to the minority experience. It is interesting to understand how this mechanism works to better support people who suffer from it.
Savior syndrome (or Saint Bernard syndrome): understanding the need to save others
Savior syndrome, also called Saint Bernard syndrome, refers to a compulsive need to help others, often at the expense of one's own needs. Those affected feel compelled to save others, even to the point of neglecting themselves completely. This behavior, linked to low self-esteem, can lead to exhaustion and unbalanced relationships.
The TIPI method
Anxiety, sadness, anger are all negative emotions that can be difficult to manage and can impact our personal and professional lives. However, there are simple and quick methods that allow you to accept and deal with your emotions, so that they no longer impact our daily lives. Among them, the TIPI method.
Toltec agreements
The Toltec agreements aim to rediscover freedom and personal well-being, present in ancestral Mexican culture. It was Don Miguel, in 1997, who shared this precious information with us in order to help us feel more in harmony with ourselves.
Understanding your stress
It is not always easy to understand your stress in a situation and recognize it. It is sometimes difficult to know what this anxiety refers to. And yet this is necessary to reduce this anxiety, its symptoms and regain daily serenity.