Mental health
fromPsychology Today
59 minutes agoHow to Rebuild Your Capacity and Find Balance
Identity recovery involves reconnecting with your true self after experiencing chronic stress and burnout.
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
12 hours agoThe definitive sign of emotional maturity isn't staying calm under pressure, it's saying I was wrong without immediately attaching the small justification that quietly puts you back in the right - Silicon Canals
Emotional maturity involves admitting mistakes without justifications, rather than maintaining calmness while avoiding accountability.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe definitive sign of emotional maturity isn't calm under pressure, it's the willingness to say 'I was wrong' without immediately following it with a justification that quietly makes you right again - Silicon Canals
Emotional maturity involves admitting fault without shifting blame, contrasting with mere composure that can mask true feelings.
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe most underrated quality of people who age well isn't health, money, or family - it's that they built a relationship with themselves long before they needed it to be the primary one, and the people who arrive at 70 having ignored that relationship are the ones who find solitude unbearable when it finally arrives - Silicon Canals
After forty years of being 'the electrician' or 'the guy who fixes things,' many retirees find themselves sitting in silence, unsure of who they are beyond their job titles. This disconnect can be jarring, as they realize they have not taken the time to know themselves.
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#mental-health
fromSilicon Canals
2 hours agoMindfulness
Psychology says the people who are genuinely mentally stronger than most aren't the ones who power through, stay positive, or never break down, they're the ones who let themselves fall apart quietly on a Tuesday evening, sat in the rubble for as long as it took, and showed up Wednesday morning without making anyone else carry it - Silicon Canals
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
2 hours agoPsychology says the people who are genuinely mentally stronger than most aren't the ones who power through, stay positive, or never break down, they're the ones who let themselves fall apart quietly on a Tuesday evening, sat in the rubble for as long as it took, and showed up Wednesday morning without making anyone else carry it - Silicon Canals
Real mental strength involves vulnerability and acknowledging struggles, not just maintaining a brave face.
#resilience
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals
Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
14 hours agoThe definitive sign of self-respect isn't confidence or assertiveness, it's the willingness to leave a conversation, a room, or a relationship without first manufacturing a reason that makes you look polite for going - Silicon Canals
Most people struggle with leaving social situations due to a fear of judgment, often fabricating excuses instead of simply departing.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
8 hours agoYou can tell a person is genuinely kind by how you feel after spending time with them - not impressed, not entertained, just lighter, more like yourself, more settled - and the person whose presence reliably produces that feeling has done something most adults never master, which is offering a kind of attention that returns you to yourself rather than redirecting you to them - Silicon Canals
Real kindness is about presence, not performance or charisma; it makes others feel more like themselves without trying to impress or entertain.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the highly perceptive people, the ones who notice the shift in a friend's voice three sentences before anyone else, who clock the tension in a room the moment they walk in, aren't gifted or intuitive, they're usually people who learned early that reading the air kept them safe - Silicon Canals
Heightened awareness of social cues often develops as a survival mechanism from childhood experiences rather than being an innate talent.
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoThe Hidden Sadness of ASMR Videos
ASMR sensations usually occur accidentally or unintentionally, but the popular videos on social media are intentionally designed to cause them. The tingly feeling you get during an ASMR video is relaxing, so the videos make a natural sleep aid.
Psychology
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI'm 38 and I noticed last week that I have been waiting for someone to tell me I'm allowed to rest, and the person I have been waiting for is me, and I have apparently been holding out on myself for about twenty years - Silicon Canals
Rest requires self-permission, not just knowledge of its benefits.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoNot everyone who keeps their feelings to themselves is private. Some people simply learned that expressing what was happening internally turned the conversation into a referendum on whether they were allowed to feel it at all - Silicon Canals
Many people remain silent about their feelings due to past experiences of having their emotions invalidated.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoNobody talks about why self improvement quietly works for some people and turns into a treadmill for everyone else, and it isn't discipline or the right system, it's that the ones it works for stopped trying to become someone new, and started removing the things blocking the person who was already there - Silicon Canals
Self-improvement fails when it feels like a performance; true change comes from uncovering your existing self rather than building a new identity.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the people who genuinely seem happy aren't more optimistic or more grateful than everyone else, they're the ones who stopped chasing the feeling a long time ago and quietly built a life small enough, honest enough, and slow enough that happiness had nowhere left to hide from them - Silicon Canals
Genuinely happy people are content and have given up the pursuit of happiness, focusing instead on building lives that fit them.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoWhen I was 60, my wife asked me when I last felt joy - not relief, not gratitude, not the quiet satisfaction of getting through the day. I couldn't answer her. That was the moment I knew I had to change - Silicon Canals
Real joy can be elusive, often overshadowed by the routine of life and the pressure to push through.
fromEsquire
2 months agoIndulging in the Arts is Proving to Have Major Health Benefits. Could Creativity be a Hidden Longevity Hack?
When the Academy Award Nominations were announced late last month, you could be forgiven for thinking they were lifetime achievement awards. In the Best Supporting Actor category, 74-year-old Stellan Skarsgård is competing against 73-year-old Delroy Lindo. (Sean Penn, at 65, and Benicio Del Toro, at 58, also in the category, are mere babes.) Amy Madigan, 75, is up for Best Supporting Actress. One of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees is in their sixties, and one of the Best Original Screenplay nominees is in his seventies.
Film
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoThe Health Benefits of Looking at Beauty
Beauty, it turns out, is capable of launching not just an armada of ships, but a cascade of the same feel-good chemicals you get from being in love, eating chocolate, exercising, and having orgasms- dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin. It also lowers stress, blood pressure, and heart rate.
Miscellaneous
Music
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoArt as a Biological Bedrock of Shared Humanity
Humans are biologically wired for shared artistic experiences, which serve as essential connective tissue for our nervous systems and cultural identity, transcending the perceived obsolescence of performing arts in the digital age.
Mindfulness
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoMy depression felt creatively expansive. Now I've overcome it, how do I keep the meaningful parts? | Leading questions
Depression creates a false sense of depth and truth through darkness, but intensity and authenticity exist equally in joy, love, and light as they do in despair.
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