January 2025

How to Build Self-Confidence to Achieve More And Unlock Your Potential

Self-confidence is a crucial skill that influences every aspect of our lives, especially in areas like decision-making, building meaningful relationships and achieving personal and professional success. It’s the foundation of self-assurance, enabling us to face life’s many challenges and not shy away from new opportunities. It also helps us learn to grow as individuals. If […]

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How I Found Emotional Freedom and 3 Unexpected Benefits

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou What if the person you’re trying hardest to please is you? For years, I wore a mask—a professional, composed, always-on version of myself that I thought everyone expected. My need to please

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A Closer Look at DeepSeek: The Low-Cost AI Chatbot That’s Now America’s No. 1 App

Until this week, little was known about DeepSeek—the Chinese AI-powered chatbot that has suddenly taken the U.S. market by storm, rattling tech stocks and stunning investors who never saw it coming. Its founder, Liang Wenfeng, remains an enigmatic figure in the U.S. market, lacking ties to Silicon Valley or American tech. Yet his unexpected foray

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Learning To Feel: Marc Brackett’s Approach to Emotional Intelligence for Kids

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is a professor at the Child Study Center at Yale University and the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI). The YCEI conducts research on the science of emotions and emotional intelligence and develops ways to teach these skills to children and adults. Since it was founded in 2013,

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What Actors Can Teach Us: Think on Your Feet & Gain Confidence With Improvisation

In many ways, improvisation feels like playing in a safe space—but don’t let the fun fool you. These heightened versions of reality can spark meaningful discoveries. My own experience with improvisation comes from directing short plays and films in Manhattan. In rehearsals, I’d frequently ask actors to set their scripts aside and interact as their

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Psychologists Share Tips on How to Cope After a Natural Disaster

For weeks now, wildfires have been ravaging Southern California, devastating neighborhoods and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. It’s not difficult to see the external consequences of these disasters, but the internal effects natural disasters have on the people experiencing them can also be debilitating.  Natural disasters have always been part

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Galentine’s Day: The Best Gift No One Thinks About

*Affiliate Disclosure Valentine’s Day is coming right up, but there is another celebration you might want to adopt. A new word, “Galentine” was recently coined after the word “Valentine.” It is a celebration of friendship between girlfriends and is the day before Valentine’s Day, February 13th. Galentine’s Day started as a fictional holiday on the

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