by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 18, 2021 | Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress
Depression as an Adaptive Strategy Depression is an adaptive life strategy that looks and feels like anything but adaptive. So, here’s how that works. According to psychiatrists Stevens and Price, whether we have lost an attachment and may feel alone and unloveable,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress
A Closer Look at Thriving With so much news on how down people are, have to say it was more than a little surprising to read about all this reported Thriving. CNN said the 59.2% number of Americans thriving was the highest measure ever recorded over the 13 years...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 30, 2021 | Attention, Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress
Cranky? Is It The Heat? So this is a little embarrassing because maybe it was a bit of no brainer all along. Maybe I should have just figured that the reason I felt cranky was because it was hot. Yes, that’s right, according to science writer, Sujata Gupta:...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 16, 2021 | Mind Management, Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Fitness, Mismatch, Stress
Human Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.” If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 9, 2021 | Decisions, Fitness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Work
Depression in the U.S. You already know you tend to feel better after you worked out. But did you know that physical activity can help you to adapt and change? What better time than now to boost our capacity to change. The change upon us right now is head spinning,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 12, 2021 | Attention, Fitness, Sleeping, Stress
Wake Up Benefits Wake Up got messed up for a lot of people when Covid brought us new opportunities for sleeping in and napping more than ever before, unless of course the kids were crawling all over you, but that brought problems of its own. Then again, sleep problems...
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