7 Ways Childhood Trauma Shows Up in Your Romantic Relationships

You can slow down in your every day life and still get things done. This guide will help you be mindful without decreasing your productivity.

«Small changes throughout your day can slow down your pace without killing your productivity. Go ahead and keep getting things done. Just remember you don’t need to do it all in a panicked state of stress. If you find a more peaceful process, you’ll likely be both happier and more effective.»

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«Many times when you’re angry, you focus on what someone else did that was wrong, which essentially gives away your power. When you focus on what you could have done better, you often feel empowered and less bitter.»

When I felt I’d wasted over a decade, I adopted a simple habit to live a good life almost every single day and avoid future regrets.

«Your top values are what you consider most important and meaningful in your life. They come from your personal beliefs about what it means to live a good life.»

The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences

I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

«I’ve come to believe that friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.»

Research on empathy development in adolescents suggests an under-appreciated potential for positive peer influence

«Positive peer relations in adolescence are associated with more satisfying romantic relationships and greater effectiveness at work later in life.»

In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles

«As a rising middle class started to focus on their own family trees, creating an ‘elite’ from new money, so dogs started to be classified too.»