7 Ways You Can Start Over
Sometimes, we’re afraid to let go because we forget that starting over is an option. New Year’s is just right around the corner and it’s…
Category: Casual
Our casual readings provide information on practical psychology, interesting facts, and self-help tips. We also include community submissions here.
5 Ways Ego Can Ruin Your Life
When we want to achieve something in life, we can become so wrapped up on success that we experience an inflation in our egos. There’s…
7 Signs You May Be Self-Actualized
Self-actualization is the best gift you can give to yourself. But like all wishes, it doesn’t come without the price of hard work, dedication, and…
5 Ways Mindfulness Can Improve Your Life
Today, we live in a fast-paced world that makes it hard to find peace when we’re constantly one click away from news, one text message…
Why It’s Important to Take Risks in Life
Footwear designer Armando Cabral says, “I don’t think you have to be an Ivy League graduate, just a risk-taker.” There are people that I’ve met…
7 Ways Alcoholic Parents Affect Their Children
I had a breakdown a few nights ago after my business meeting ended with Tai Khuong, co-founder and CEO of Psych2Go. I almost didn’t want…
7 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently
According to Google dictionary, intuition is “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.” In other words, it’s the gut feeling…
8 Signs You’re a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Susan Cain’s book Quiet was a catalyst for the introvert movement that helped bring awareness towards personality types with a greater need for solitude and…
If You’re An Introvert Pretending to be An Extrovert, These Are The 5 Side Effects!
Most introverts believe, while they’re growing up, that they are not normal. A lot of them try and pretend to be as extroverted as possible…
7 Extremely Common Forms of Verbal Abuse
Verbal abuse is touched on in the article “10 Red Flags of an Abusive Relationship.” For this article we hope to expand on that topic.…
8 Effective Ways to Strengthen Parent-Teen Relationships
There’s no such thing as a perfect family. Parents may often think they’re doing what’s “best for their child” because they love them, but those…
7 Little Known Psychiatric Disorders
Many of us are aware of the “usual” suspects when it comes to mental disorders. Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and even dissociative identity disorder are…
7 Common Misconceptions about Loneliness
According to John Cacioppo, author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, loneliness is on the rise because we aren’t as closely…
7 Ways to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Most of how our lives unfold is determined by the actions we take. For people pleasers, their nightmares are often created by the actions they…
7 Signs You May Be a People Pleaser
Reaching out and practicing the art of selflessness is a great way to self-actualize. In fact, going beyond the ego and self-absorbed tendencies can be…
The Emotional Hostage: 4 Ways to Tell What Emotional Blackmail is
Scene: You’re on the phone with a friend. They’ve made you angry and in your fight you told them that you just want to be…
5 Effective Ways to Cope with Loneliness
Loneliness is driven by many different factors. Communication problems, racial and cultural intolerance, and environmental influences can all increase one’s chance of experiencing loneliness. But,…
7 Psychologically Proven Study Tips That Will Actually Improve Your Performance
You’re sitting there, book in hand, unable to figure out where to start on your study journey. Almost everyone who has had to study has…
7 Feel-Good Songs To Help Your Depression
Depression, especially major depressive disorder, is a serious mental illness. Depression affects how the sufferer sees and interacts with the world around them. One symptom…
OCD… What is it? An Understanding of Mental Illness
Obsessive compulsive disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is a mental illness that affects roughly 1 in 40 adults and 1 in 100 children. The…