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Happiness is often treated as a simple question?— What makes us feel good? But modern neuroscience gives a far more nuanced answer: Happiness is not a single emotion. It is a dynamic brain state —?a pattern of activity across neural…
There is a sentence that has entered public conversation over the last couple of years: “AI is becoming psychologically troubled.” People say chatbots are anxious, emotionally unstable, manipulative, lonely, traumatised, even existential. Social media is full of screenshots where AI…
In Russia, even the kettles suffer existential crises. You wake up at six in the morning because the radiator is hissing like an offended grandmother, and outside the window the sky looks as if God forgot to switch on the…
There is a peculiar tragedy that psychology encounters again and again: people often spend years building lives that are masterpieces of contradiction. Not ordinary contradictions.Not "I want cake, but I also want abs." I mean deeper contradictions. The kind that…
Everyone is talking about intelligence: emotional intelligence financial intelligence, social intelligence, cultural intelligence, strategic intelligence, artificial intelligence. Soon we will probably invent twenty more. And yet I keep having the feeling that we are trying to solve one problem by…
Childhood should be a time of safety, nurturing, and growth. Unfortunately, for many individuals, early life experiences include abuse, neglect, or other traumatic events that leave lasting emotional and psychological wounds. While the abuse may have occurred years or even…
I recall many years ago watching a video of a social experiment... Many people got lined up for a race, but before that the host made a few statements that allowed some to take 2 steps forward if, for example:…
The InCorr Method: Somatic Trauma Healing A plain-language guide to how this approach works, who it's for, and what makes it different If you've been in therapy before and found yourself understanding your issues clearly but still feeling stuck, you're…
What's Your Story? Everyone has a story. Male clients who come to counselling come from different backgrounds, different ages, and different walks of life. Some know exactly what's wrong. Others just know that something doesn't feel right anymore. One of…
We often think trauma is the event itself.The abuse. The neglect. The abandonment. The accident. The loss. But trauma isn’t always about what happened.The real trauma — the one that stays lodged in the body, in the heart, in the…
There’s a quiet crisis almost everyone is living: We don’t know who we are. We only know who we’ve been told to be. And the longer we cling to that illusion, the more exhausted, fragmented, and disconnected we become. Let’s…
To my fellow psychologists, this is an invitation to expand our practice in response to a changing world of work. And to those living with work and life instability: "you are not alone. Your worth is not determined by a…