by madelaineweiss | Apr 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is Your Brain on Multitasking: “Stop It! I Can’t Do That! And You are Going to Pay!” That’s right, there is no such thing as multitasking, precisely because the brain can’t do that. The best your brain can do is to spend large amounts of energy going...
by madelaineweiss | Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Maybe someday the lines between ‘man and machine’ will be so entirely blurred that a platform like Zoom could become Time’s Person of the Year. Zoom is an extension of the Human Social Brain that has, so far in this crisis, played a major role...
by madelaineweiss | Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Before Corona, I had myself framed essentially as a lover of humanity, a woman who stretches herself to understand, rather than judge, the annoying, if not outrageous, behavior of other people. Then one day last week, I saw an online advertisement for a tank top that...
by madelaineweiss | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized, Work
https://tomkiesche.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/bed-head-crop.jpg This is how my client, Frank, looked 2 sessions ago at 4:45 in the afternoon. He was clearly trying to pat it down so I figured it was okay to say something. “Is that your bedhead,” I asked. And...
by madelaineweiss | Apr 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Homeostasis, from the Greek words for “same” and “steady,” refers to any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival. Space in couples and families is one of those conditions. A...
by madelaineweiss | Mar 29, 2020 | Crisis
Hello, Here I am working from home, but then for me this is not new. For many of you, however, the extent of it is pretty much a first. And now, people who typically do not work outside the home, are…let’s say ‘visited upon’ by the people who do—the people who used to...
by madelaineweiss | Mar 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
The stress that First Responders endure can lead to anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, cognitive impairment, substance abuse, relationship difficulties, physical illness… Read more to learn more here. Even so, First Responders typically do not pay a...
by madelaineweiss | Mar 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The findings…when they repeatedly gave to others the participants’ happiness did not decline, and the joy they felt from giving to others on the fifth day was just as strong as on the first day. In contrast, participants who spent money on themselves...
by madelaineweiss | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Social Distancing is the CDC’s first bullet for prevention and treatment of COVID-19, so we are hearing the term a lot. However, the concept of setting infectious people apart from the rest of us, or setting ourselves apart from the rest of them, is not new. It’s in...
by madelaineweiss | Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Work-Life integration may be all about Time—but not only about you and your particular issues with time. Humans have been preoccupied with time forever. First, we tracked the moon, sun, and stars to tell us when to sleep and eat, and then it was calendars to help us...
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