Hypervigilance is a term psychologists use to refer to those among us who are locked into a state of almost …
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How To Lengthen Your Life
The trick to lengthening your life isn’t to eat more kale or jog more: it’s to lengthen how long time …
Why Are We so Easily ‘triggered’?
Most of us are aware that, around certain topics, we’re uncomfortably easily ‘triggered’, that is, we react with far too …
The Appeal of Lonely Places
Some of us feel most at home not in obviously beautiful or homely places, but in desolate, melancholy ones, places …
The Problem of Shame
Underlying so many of our emotional problems lies one phenomenon above any other; shame. Feeling misguidedly and disproportionately ashamed of …
A Country We Could Feel Proud Of
We’re sometimes taught that feeling proud of one’s country is always suspect; but actually, it’s very important to be able …
The Impact of Early Emotional Neglect
A lot of our adult problems come down to varieties of emotional neglect suffered in childhood. In this film, we …
Feeling Grateful for the Small Things
We sometimes imagine, especially when we’re young, that happiness is made up of huge things, like lots of money, fame, …