In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from ...

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Whatever sphere you inhabit, whether you’re a pro or amateur athlete, businessperson, teacher, full-time parent or something else entirely, you’re bound to have felt the pressure of your own ...

Given the popularity of astrology columns, self-help books and personality quizzes, there’s plenty of reason to believe that most – if not all – people are intrigued to learn more about themselves, to ...

Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

I step under the water, determined to enjoy a mindful shower – therapist’s orders. Watch the steam rise, I tell myself. Take in the scent of overpriced argan oil. Feel the slippery shampoo bottle in ...

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I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation Suppose you just started training for a marathon. You’ve never done anything ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...