Psychology

It is no secret that we spend a lot of time working — whether we work-from-home or go to an office. With a majority of time spent at work comes a lot of anxiety, stress, and poor health. People have less time to exercise, eat healthy, or sleep properly. The...

By Cayla Berejikian The past year of my life saw a lot of change. None of it felt monumentous, special, transformative, or like it was “meant to be.” It was simply constant and uncomfortable, like a dull headache. And the only side effect was vague sense of confusion and detachment,...

What is happiness? Most of us know when we feel it, but how do we go about defining it? Is it a generalized word to describe a wide range of other positive emotions like joy, contentment, and overall positive well-being? Or is it a philosophy of life and thus our...

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...

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.

“Every thought has a propellant, and that propellant is an emotion.”  – Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True.  Mindfulness meditation helps us delve deeper into the mind and reflect openly and honestly about our thoughts and emotions.  It also has tremendous benefits for improving things like attention span, pain tolerance,...