Whether it's peer relationships, puberty, or family strife, today's children often experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and worry. As a psychologist who works with parents, many moms, dads, and caregivers regularly ask me, "How can I help my kids feel better?" While we can't control what happens in the world, parents can equip their kids with education in emotions, a much-needed life skill. Being able to temper sharp emotions can prevent symptoms of depression, research shows.
1. Reconnect With An Impactful Client I reconnect with a client whose music I truly believe in-music that I feel makes the world a better place. It reminds me that our work is bigger than us, with meaning that goes far beyond the workspace. - Waylon Barnes, C2 Management 2. Find Motivation In Mission-Based Work With my agency's focus on healthcare, health tech and life sciences, our team is lucky to work with companies that truly can change people's health and lives for the better-and in some cases, even save them. Keeping that mission-based work top of mind is an incredible motivator to keep going even when the going gets tough! - Jodi Amendola, Amendola Communications
Let's be real-it's not easy. Scaling a manufacturing company is messy, unpredictable, and often brutal. My job as CEO is not to hide the chaos, it's to cut through it and get to the finish line. We've built systems, habits, and a culture that make the hard things manageable. From the outside that might look like ease. But every single day there is grit.
Western culture has taught us that suffering is a problem to be solved, discomfort a symptom to be medicated away, and trauma something to avoid at all costs. Yet, research by psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun suggests we may have this entirely backwards. Their work on post-traumatic growth reveals that some of life's most profound transformations-positive changes in self-perception and relationships, greater self-awareness and confidence,
The team started cooking for hospitals and the national guard, and making up food packs for people who needed them. The war was a massive shock for us, but it was also a time when everyone pulled together. Suppliers were helping they would call and say: We've got 10kg of sweet potato, do you want them? You would put a message on the group chat with other restaurants and bars saying you'd had a request to feed 400 people.
"I had to let myself feel the pain, the grief, the gratitude of being given my life back. The thought of almost dying while doing something I loved was unimaginable...I don't know if fate is real or not, or if there is truth behind destiny, but I do believe that everything that happens in life provides an opportunity."
As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: The history and future of societal collapse. It is an account of a study by a Cambridge expert who works at something ominously called the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; he concludes that we can't put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today and self-termination is most likely.
"resilience originates from the Latin verb resilire 'to leap back' or 'rebound' and is defined in the Oxford Dictionary of English in the following manner: resilience, where one is "'able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions'." Added to this Young (2014, p. 11), writes that "resilience refers to strengths under stress, in response to crisis, and forged through dealing with adversity".
My grandmother passed away a few years ago after a long battle with cancer. Even as her health deteriorated, she never lost her spirit. She'd still get excited about whether the Pittsburgh Steelers might finally have a decent season after Ben Roethlisberger's retirement. She'd debate the Pirates' chances with the kind of passionate optimism that only comes from decades of loyal disappointment.
Snowplow parenting, experts say, is usually born out of love and care, but can lead to issues for the child later in life. What Is a Snowplow Parent? A parent who regularly removes obstacles from their child's figurative path is often referred to as a snowplow parent. Just as a snowplow smoothes the path for those behind it, a snowplow parent steps in to smooth things over before their child has an opportunity to encounter a challenge.
Graciela Maria Ferreira or Grachu to her loved ones is late with the rent again, and she needs the money now. Unfortunately, she's spent her last dollars on a plush couch and her landlord is waiting on her doorstep. Grachu isn't always a believer but today she needs God to find her a new job. So begins Hailstones Fell Without Rain Natalia Figueroa Barroso's debut, and the second published novel by a Uruguayan-Australian writer.
And since our world's systems are composed of individual organisms, they have the capacity to change. We creatures adapt, our genes evolve, we can learn from experience. A system is ever-changing because its parts - the trees and fungi and people - are constantly responding to one another and to the environment. Our success in coevolution - our success as a productive society - is only as good as the strength of the bonds with other individuals and species.
In my work as a productivity coach, I've come to see why. We're hardwired to link failure with finality, which fuels self-doubt and causes motivation to fizzle out. Yet, failure is just another stepping stone on the path to success. So if you hit a bump, don't take it as a sign to give up; take it as an opportunity to learn, adjust, and go again.
"Just stay positive." It's one of the most common pieces of advice offered when someone is struggling. In self-help books, corporate wellness programs, and even social media, positivity is promoted as the ultimate key to happiness and success. But while optimism has its place, the term positive mindset can be misleading. It implies that maintaining a cheerful outlook-sometimes reduced to simply smiling-is enough to overcome life's most difficult challenges.
I'm finally feeling over you and the weird bullshit that took over my brain to put me in this position. I'm still struggling to stop drinking but I balance life and haven't let that take me over either. I'm realizing what is important to me and trying to gravitate towards it. It's hard to not feel overwhelmed and sad in this world but I am getting by and I think I'm doing better.
In my private practice, I work with a grandmother who feels like she worries "too much" about her teenage granddaughter. She often feels that when she visits with her adult children and grandchildren, as much as she loves seeing them, she always leaves worrying more and more about things that her granddaughter is doing. Her granddaughter's struggles with friendships, her reliance on social media, and worries about her future in today's uncertain world sit squarely on this grandmother's shoulders.
It's taken me a while to get this done, to get this first win. I've never looked at it as just trying to win once. I've always had the mindset that I want to win multiple. I want to win plenty. It's just that the first one seems to have taken a long time. The next one might take a long time; I don't know. But I've always had the mindset that I just want to be one of the best players in the world,
During back-to-school month, take time to strengthen these eight wisdom life skills that are never taught in school. These essential traits are based on my wisdom study and Common Wisdom book findings, and they can help you increase your joy, happiness, and success. While education is important and necessary, having intelligence is not the same as having wisdom. Think about the people you know who are highly intelligent and well accomplished: Do they all make good decisions, and do they live meaningful lives?
'Stuck' captures that in-between feeling: the pressure to follow a traditional path, the guilt of wanting more, and the quiet fire that finally sets you free. It's an anthem for anyone balancing purpose and expectation, a reminder that being 'stuck' is often part of the process.
