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Healing Space | Should you quit social media?
Social media is like an addiction, a ride you want to get off of but can’t. You linger, hover, detox, deactivate, restore. How do you decide to stay or go?
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Healing Space | The growth mindset needs more than money
Can Elon Musk’s $6 billion really solve world hunger? Why we need so much more than money to solve our problems.
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Healing Space | Learning how to lose
Good sportsmanship tells us we must lose with grace, and learn to celebrate the winner with as much enthusiasm. In the moment we resent the other. How do we change this?
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Healing Space | The secret to a 50-50 in relationships
You’ve shaken hands and you’ve laid out the terms of engagement. But what really makes for equality in any partnership?
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Healing Space | Best friends, family and bitter rivals: siblings you love to hate
Sibling rivalry hots up whether you have to share socks or business goals. How to hold your own without losing the relationship.
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Healing Space | When you’re not in the wrong but they’re coming at you
How you cope with unjustified provocation depends on how you deploy your emotional intelligence.
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Healing Space | Your debt and your wealth begin in your mind
The roots of debt, spending and our relationship to money lie in the mind. Here’s how to untangle your money mindset
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Healing Space | Who are we cancelling today?
Is cancel culture just another version of mob justice? What you need to know before you participate.
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Healing Space | Our children are struggling
Children have mental health needs too, especially during Covid-19 times when they are as affected by grief, loss, and uncertainty as adults. Signs to watch for and how to help.
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Healing Space | Zoom dysmorphia: How overusing your filter is harming you
A new study indicates that with too much webcam use, people are increasingly dissatisfied with how they look and it’s giving rise to body image issues.
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Healing Space | Can we become friends with our enemies?
Sworn enemies make up and get on the same side. Is it denial or maturity? And how do we achieve it in our lives?
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Healing Space | The great resignation: quit or stay?
Everyone seems to be on the verge of quitting their jobs. How to use the right technique to evaluate whether it’s the right decision for you.
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Healing Space | Why your meditation isn’t helping you cope
Whether it’s the pandemic fallout or news of Afghanistan, we take to meditation or mindfulness as a means of coping. However, if you’re not getting calmer; or worse, are getting more agitated, here's why.
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Healing Space | When you hate the other, you really hate yourself
One of the sources of rage directed outwards is rage directed inwards. Projection allows us to see our undesirable emotions in others and blame it on them.
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Healing Space | How to exit the rage cycle
Every week it’s a new trigger, something to send us spinning into outrage, anger, anguish, despair. Escape is possible, though, through compassion for oneself and others.
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Healing Space | Did Naomi Osaka pave the way for Simone Biles?
Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka prove Albert Bandura’s theory of social learning. It doesn’t matter what the system rewards, it is possible to change human behaviour.
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Healing Space | Are we speaking different languages or what?
We saw the oxygen shortage, but others say they didn’t. This happens at home too. We see the mess, others don’t. Why the inferential gap means we are not always on the same page.
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Healing Space | Of Masterchef paanta bhaat and TopChef upma: why comfort food wins
The psychology of comfort eating, belongingness, and social surrogacy. Also, comfort food is not equal to junk food.
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Healing Space | Why celebrity lives - and deaths - affect us so
How our mourning of Aamir Khan’s divorce and Dilip Kumar’s passing is rooted in our anchoring bias, cultural identity, and social currency.
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Healing Space | The domination of out of control parents
Parents who try to control everything from their children’s partners to assets, damage their autonomy. Here's how to protect your right to self-determination.
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Healing Space | Can’t go back to ‘normal’: Living in a post-lockdown gap
We are struggling to catch up, while others act like everything is okay. We live in a gap between our emotions and reality. The dissonance of navigating a post-lockdown world.
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Healing Space | How violent pandemic sex is destroying marriages
Sexual coercion, marital rape and abuse within relationships is on the rise. But sex by any means won’t make for a healthy relationship.
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Healing Space | Wide awake in a nightmare
Are you battling too much or too little sleep? Are you having nightmares or falling asleep unintentionally. Getting a good night’s rest plays a vital role in your mental health.
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Healing Space | No More! Stand up for your mental health like Naomi Osaka
For too long we’ve allowed predatory institutions and environments to erode our mental health. If we don’t protect ourselves, nobody will.
