Teaching Kids Emotion Words Builds Better Self-Regulation

Teaching Kids Emotion Words Builds Better Self-Regulation

Vocabulary might be the secret weapon for managing meltdowns. Imagine a six-year-old crumbling onto the floor because their favorite cup is in the dishwasher. To an observer, it looks like a tantrum... Read more »
How Words Perpetuate Stigma Surrounding Addiction

How Words Perpetuate Stigma Surrounding Addiction

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD)... Read more »
Wired for Words: Understanding Language and the Brain

Wired for Words: Understanding Language and the Brain

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and what was... Read more »
Two Little Words Can Make a Big Difference in a Relationship

Two Little Words Can Make a Big Difference in a Relationship

People do things that may irritate, upset, frustrate, or annoy us, or impose demands we feel are excessive or unreasonable. When conflicts flare up, they can lead to heated arguments, hurt feelings,... Read more »
Family Estrangement: What Do You Want Your Last Words to Be?

Family Estrangement: What Do You Want Your Last Words to Be?

In the last decade, the amount of research that has provided evidence of the correlation between social support and well-being has exploded. If you want to live a long and healthy life,... Read more »
Kind Words, Weird Feels: The Psychology of Compliments

Kind Words, Weird Feels: The Psychology of Compliments

Pervasive Inner Critic Dialogue Source: DALL-E / OpenAI As my new book, Ditch the Ditty: Doing What Matters Instead of Doing it All, debuted and the compliments started rolling in, my inner... Read more »
Words of Wisdom from the Subconscious

Words of Wisdom from the Subconscious

Source: Kitreel/Shutterstock The subconscious can be a source of wisdom. Such wisdom can be accessed in many ways, including through dreams, quieting the conscious mind through hypnosis and noticing what thoughts come... Read more »
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