I had become irritable and highly intolerant of minor disturbances or anything that could get in the way of my comfort. And I was deeply unhappy. I embark on a mini-quest to regain ownership over my lived experience, my sense of time and place, and a sense of meaning in my day-to-day-life. And ideally, I would find some stable form of happiness.
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Personality psychology is descriptive rather than explanatory, so it is a fallacy to say that a person is sensitive because they are introverted and neurotic, and far more accurate to say that some psychologists will label them as introverted and neurotic because they are sensitive.
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“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu Over 2,500 years ago, the great Lao Tzu encouraged us to take a step back and watch
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Guilt and shame are two of the most powerful emotions in our culture. They can be extremely negatively valenced in the mind and body, and I observe that they affect people’s mental health to a great degree. In this post I will describe why people can tend to get caught up in unhealthy patterns of feeling excessive shame and guilt, and give you some pointers on how you can overcome these patterns.
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One common theme that emerges while working with my clients, in both personal and professional settings, is that they often continue to have the same types of conflicts, over and over. Naturally these experiences can elicit hopelessness and toxic stress. People are inclined to quit on relationships or leave positions within companies when things reach
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Ancient Wisdom Proven By Science We’ve all heard about mindfulness and yoga. It’s the new wave in the ever changing world of health. But what does all of that really mean and where did it actually come from? How does this relate to psychology or what we do at Adaptive Edge Coaching? Read on to
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There is a huge philosophical question about the mind and the body. Some philosophers say that they are separate entities while others postulate that they are one and the same. In psychology, we see the body as the unconscious mind. From this well-researched, non-dualist perspective, it is undeniable that our body states impact the state of our mental health. Our nervous system plays a big role in our unconscious processes. At Adaptive Edge Coaching, we utilize polyvagal theory to help you understand that physical and emotional changes occur when you are in a mental transition.
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A huge part of our job as educators is to instill a healthy sense of identity in our students. This results in higher self-esteem and engagement in academic content as well as activities outside of school. We do this by helping students build skills that support an exploratory orientation to their relationship with self, and
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Psychologists have gone to wits end to describe what motivates people. This can be seen in the drive theories of Freud and the psychoanalysts, the operant conditioning of Skinner in behavioral psychology, and the work on self-determination theory by social psychologists Deci and Ryan, to name a few. So what do identity theorists have to say about what motivates us in life? In the Handbook of Identity Theory and Research, Vivian Vignoles reveals research about how your identity has a major influence on your thoughts, beliefs, and actions. In this post I will give a brief background on identity from a developmental perspective, explain the key points of Vignoles’ research, and then ground it in some real-world examples to show why identity motivations should matter to all of us.
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t Adaptive Edge Coaching, I pair educational content in psychology with constructive exercises to help people make life changes, develop soft skills, perform at their best, and heal through change. My services have impacted individuals in America, Europe, and India and I have partnered with organizations and community leaders to bring development to groups on a wide scale.
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