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The Art of Letting Things Be
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The Gap Between Knowing & Doing | What Psychology Tells Us
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The psychology of knowing when to continue & When to let go
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Exploring Neuroplasticity
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Recent posts

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The Discipline of Letting Things Be
On facing experience without imposing a framework on it
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The Part of Attention We Never Notice
How Disengagement Frees the Mind
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One Year on Substack: Observations from a Psychological Perspective
How reinforcement, attention & uncertainty influence the writing experience on Substack.
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A Dynamic View of Mental Health
How context, regulation & variability shape our inner life
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Psychology

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The Part of Attention We Never Notice
How Disengagement Frees the Mind
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One Year on Substack: Observations from a Psychological Perspective
How reinforcement, attention & uncertainty influence the writing experience on Substack.
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A Dynamic View of Mental Health
How context, regulation & variability shape our inner life
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Why the Future Feels So Engaging to the Mind
What Psychology Reveals About Imagining the Present & the Future
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Your Mind on Caffeine
When alertness tips into anxiety
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Can We Learn to Think Like Scientists?
The Traits That Help Us Tell Truth from Persuasion
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How Counterfactual Thinking Fuels Regret & Keeps the Past Alive
Exploring how imagined alternatives turn past events into present emotions
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The Hard Work of Seeing Ourselves
Finding clarity between who we are & how we are seen
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Neuroscience

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The Many Faces of Dementia & Stories Behind the Science
Exploring Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal, Vascular & Mixed Dementia
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Exploring Adult Neurogenesis: The Birth of New Neurons in the Adult Brain
How the adult brain keeps learning & adapting through life.
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Exploring Neuroplasticity
Your brain is always listening & always ready to change
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Silence & The Mind - Lasting Changes in the Brain
The brain’s surprising response to quiet moments
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A Short Series on Personality

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It’s Official: A Short Series on Personality is Live !
Listen now (2 mins) | Understanding Ourselves
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What is Personality? ☆ Episode 1
Listen now (4 mins) | Patterns of Mind & Behaviour
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Can People Change? ☆ Episode 2
Listen now (2 mins) | Core Traits vs. Surface Characteristics
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What Are the Big Five? ☆ Episode 3
Listen now (2 mins) | The Five Factor Model
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Openness to Experience ☆ Episode 4
Listen now (3 mins) | How receptive we are to new ideas, perspectives & experiences.
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Conscientiousness ☆ Episode 5
Listen now (4 mins) | How we manage responsabilities
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Extraversion ☆ Episode 6
Listen now (3 mins) | How much stimulation we tend to seek out
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Agreeableness ☆ Episode 7
Listen now (3 mins) | Harmony, warmth & compromise
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Rethinking Mental Health

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A Survivor Explains What It’s Like to Live With PTSD - The illness of the brave
Guest Post | Leon Macfayden - Mental Health Educator & Advocate
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Are we born anxious, or do we become anxious?
Exploring the Roots & Shaping Forces of an Anxious Mind
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The Shared Reality of Hallucinations
Reframing an experience that belongs to more of us than we think
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Rethinking Depression as a Condition of the Body
Listening to the Body’s Role in Emotional Pain
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Conversations

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The Discipline of Letting Things Be
On facing experience without imposing a framework on it
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When Mortality Visits
How ought we live, knowing it’s coming?
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The First Porn Movie I Watched & Why I’m Writing About It Now
A blue-eyed man, a rented DVD & the conversation we’re still avoiding.
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When Dreams Fade, What Remains?
When the world feels unbearable, the mind builds its own structure, one that makes sense, even if it does not align with reality.
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The Locked Shelf

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What does it feel like to be you?
Further reflection on how personality & other traits shape our inner experience
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How has being open or reserved shaped your life & relationships?
On the choices we make & the ones we hesitate to
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How Have You Changed?
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