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Below are seven tips that some people find useful in reducing stress. Although they appear simple, they are sometimes hard to apply. A psychologist could help you determine what strategies are best for you, and help you incorporate them into your life. 1. Talk to people: share your feelings and concerns with friends and loved […]

A new study shows that cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) reduces the risk heart attacks, strokes and deaths in patients with heart disease! Check out the story here.

Check out the article published in Science Daily, titled “Positive Feelings May Help Protect Cardiovascular Health“. From that article: A large review of scientific studies, published in Psychological Bulletin by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, revealed that positive psychological well-being appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular

In helping you reach your goals, it’s important to make a distinction between process goals and results goals. Examples of results goals are: “I want to lose 10 pounds”, or “I want to go to Mexico” for vacation this summer, or “I want to win the championship”. These are examples of “big picture”, end result

Many years of research and hundreds of studies have shown that human beings have a need to be social and form relationships with other people. One of the more popular explanations for why we need to connect and attach ourselves to other people comes from evolutionary psychology. It is presumed that being part of a

Although slightly technical, this nice article on happiness is a real eye opener: it’s called What We Know Now About How to Be Happy . Even if it’s difficult to define happiness, there are strong relationships between health and happiness…

Back when I was studying to become a psychologist, I had been fascinated by the “termites” – the nickname of the participants of a project by Lewis Terman, who over 80 years ago began to study 1,500 ten year old Californians. Generations of researchers have been working on this project, following the termites over the

I stumbled upon a great “infographic” : Desk Rage – The Tell-Tale Signs of an Overworked Employee.   Although made to help bosses, I think it’s very important for employees (actually, everyone!) to know this stuff too. All too often, people suffer from these symptoms and don’t even make the connection between overwork and their

Most people reading this sentence are far more likely to have heard the name of drugs used to treat depression and anxiety (ex: Prozac and Xanax) than the name of a psychological therapy. However, more and more people are coming to learn about a particular type of therapy that has steadily been gaining attention for

Many people have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a boss or supervisor they perceived as a bully or as inconsiderate. Dealing with such a problematic relationship is sometimes made all the more difficult by the imbalance in the power or authority that each person in the relationship has. On the one hand, a