By Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate — 2012
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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Dr. Gordon Neufeld speaks at The Dalai Lama Center about Anxiety in Children and Youth.
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Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.
If you’ve suffered from sleep problems, hyperreactivity, persistent grief, or inescapable worry about the future―especially triggered by the nonstop news cycle―then you’re probably dealing with emotional inflammation. The good news is: there’s something you can do about it.
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses stress, emotions, and their overall impact on our health.
Even before the pandemic brought on a crushing wave of stress, anxiety, isolation, life change, and financial struggle, there was already a growing mental health crisis. Due to a culture that encourages perfection, hustle, and fictional life/work balance, many are burning out.
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Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a leading scholar in the field of positive psychology, explains simple ways that you can enhance positive emotions in your life.
This lesson has stayed with me and is so relevant to our lives today.
When Oxford published Emotion and Adaptation, the landmark 1991 book on the psychology of emotion by internationally acclaimed stress and coping expert Richard Lazarus, Contemporary Psychology welcomed it as "a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes.
Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
Anxiety is one of most prevalent mental health disorders, with 1 out of 14 people around the world being likely affected.