Psychology Today Blog:
Making Change
A psychologist provides guidelines to help individuals define their best pathways to change
By Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.
The Secret to a Fulfilling Life
You can make your life exciting and fulfilling, leaving boredom behind. It will take effort and courage. But it is a choice that you can make.
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Overcome Feeling Like a Fraud or Failure
Success often brings unexpected anxieties and feelings of being a fraud. When this happens, you may press for more accomplishments or accolades.
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Fear Failure? Here’s a Note to Your Inner Critic
You, like many people, might motivate yourself by being self-critical. You might expect that you need to do this to succeed. But what if you’re wrong?
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What to Do When Life Hurts
Adversity can cut deep, like a psychic dagger. The pain is real, and the psychic scar can last a lifetime. While you probably wouldn’t choose adversity, you can choose how to respond to it.
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How to Beat Boredom
People can feel imprisoned by their boredom. They are stuck in feeling restless and unmotivated with no hope of finding freedom. But there is a way out. Much like any prison break, your way out is to begin by tunneling down.
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Personal Growth 101: Letting Go of Self-Improvement
Too often striving to be a better person means rejecting the person you are. This can be demoralizing and undermine your motivation to make changes.
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Don’t Let Fear Stop You
You, like many people, may criticize yourself for being stopped by your fears. If you are tired of feeling beaten down by this, there is another option.
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Anxious? Your Body May Be Trying to Tell You Something
Many people try to ignore, deny, or suppress their emotions. As an emotional energy builds within, they are unable to identify its source. The result? Anxiety. The cure?
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Your Anxiety Might Be a Healthy Sign
There is certainly a reason for all that anxiety you are feeling, but it may not be what you fear. Instead of being a symptom of something wrong, it might mean that your body is working well and trying to tell you something.
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Learn to Take Back Control When Emotions Rise to Power
We’ve all had those times after a difficult situation when we’ve said, “I wish I had…” While being human involves having to face that we will always make mistakes
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