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Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Year-End Reflection: Moving Beyond 'Good Year, Bad Year'

Deep year-end reflection requires moving beyond impressions and opinions to identify the underlying principles that connect events into a coherent narrative.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

A Simple Tool for Better Thinking and Less Anxiety

A client came to see me after what she described as "three hours of hell." Her sister had left a voicemail that sounded "off"-the tone was different somehow, clipped maybe, or strained. My client's mind immediately jumped to the worst: someone in the family must have died. She spent the rest of her afternoon constructing elaborate scenarios, planning what she'd say at the funeral, worrying about how her elderly mother would cope.
Philosophy
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

From Fire to Sun: A Platonic Map for Healing Trauma

Trauma restructures neural organization into sophisticated, threat-focused patterns that mirror Plato's divided line, leading pathways toward either destructive or life-supporting principles.
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