Interesting Articles
Self-Knowledge: 3 Tools to Know Yourself Better
All of us live our personal dream. We may or may not be conscious of each step, but they’re there, playing out as accurately as if read from a script. When we talk about reaching our goals and purposes, or materializing…
Rebecca Syndrome: Jealousy Over Your Partner’s Ex
Does your blood boil when you remember your significant other’s old flame? Do you think that their previous love affair wasn’t healthy, but are also bothered when someone remembers it? Do you compare yourself with your current partner’s exes? In…
Love in Its Entirety
“When you fall in love, the teams of time call at oblivion Misery is full of miracles Fear turns into audacity And death doesn’t come out of its cave Falling in love is a free sign A window that opens…
16 Quotes from the Fabulous Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is one of my favorite people. She was an intense, brave and magnificent woman who left an incredible legacy, not only in the form of her paintings but also in her words, lessons and the example of her struggle.…
Psychology
Five Keys to Help You Fight Academic Stress
When exams are just around the corner, all students want is for their grades to prove their hard work. Their personal challenge is to pass all their exams with good grades. Since students tend to stress themselves out over this,…
Reactive Attachment Disorder: The Neglected Child
When a child grows up neglected or not cared enough for, problems may arise. Specifically, the child may develop inadequate social behaviors. Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) or disinhibited attachment disorder (DAD) may develop due to this. Attachment is the main…
Why Do We Sometimes Blame the Victim?
Before the trial against “La Manada“, many people asked themselves why society sometimes tends to blame the victim. This tends to happen when someone shares some of the aggressor’s traits. People tend to do this when they don’t want to…
Can Literature and Poetry Help Us Overcome Depression?
For the Greek, libraries were places that healed the soul. Literature and poetry are therapeutic tools that can help us overcome depression, given that a book is more than a shelter. The combination of letters and thought-provoking worlds is a…
Emotions
How to Introduce Your Children to Your New Partner
Couples are more fluid than ever these days. High divorce rates, coupled with new family situations, put us in circumstances we don’t always know how to deal with. One example is having to introduce our children to a new partner.…
Ways to Disconnect from Work and Enjoy Yourself
It happens without us even noticing it. Our work becomes the center of our concerns. Then, it becomes practically the only thing that occupies our mind, time, and emotions. We discover that we can’t disconnect from work and just enjoy…
Are You Capable of Surprising Yourself?
Over the years, life can become increasingly monotonous and boring. The same work schedule every week, the same activities in our free time, similar ways of spending the weekends… Little by little, monotony makes its way into our lives. Once…
Relationship Debts: When I Make Sacrifices but Expect Something in Return
We all know what debts are: payment commitments between two entities that have to be fulfilled. However, few people realize that relationship debts also exist, especially between couples. Today, you might discover that you have some pending relationship debts to…
Curiosities
The Three Most Popular Food Myths
Nutrition is really confusing. As of now, there are so many theories, false information, and different points of view on how we should eat. Thus, we feel lost when it comes to what we should do to lose weight or…
Being a Leader is More than Just Being in Charge
How can we define what a leader is? Is it a person who’s in charge in a company or someone who makes all the decisions in a work team? Are there a series of qualities that a person needs to…
Five Tips to Help You Develop Willpower
In many cases, willpower coincides with both our conscious and unconscious desires. However, sometimes our conscious and unconscious desires are different. Thus, we end up saying one thing and doing another. We struggle with our willpower because we don’t know…
The Thyroid Gland and Pregnancy: Are They Related?
The thyroid gland and pregnancy have a direct relationship that not many people know about. During pregnancy, a woman’s thyroid gland is “forced” to increase its thyroxine production by 30 to 50%. Its balance and good functioning will favor the…
Three Healthy Habits You Should Adopt
The scientific studies that have been carried out to date have managed to identify a wide variety of healthy habits that contribute to our well-being. In this article, we talk about practices that fall into one of three categories: a…
Books
Five Educational Psychology Books You Should Read
Educational psychology studies the behavior and cognitive processes linked to educational settings. The studies researchers have carried out in this area provide us with strategies and tools that can help us create an ideal educational system. Despite being a little-known…
5 Historical Novels that Will Broaden Your Horizons
Historical novels are capable of transporting us to another time and place. A good historical novel has the potential to show us past realities. Moreover, by reading, we experience unknown cultures, exotic foods, unforgettable landscapes, and endearing personas. Historical novels paint…
Aesthetic Intelligence: The Ability to Sense Beauty
It’s not easy to describe the concept of beauty. Countless thinkers and philosophers have tried with varying degrees of success. Is it an aesthetic standard? A combination of colors and shapes? A feeling? Or is it some spiritual sort of…
7 Books that Help Overcome Anxiety
Let’s be honest. On a daily basis, most of us cope with a mind that wants to go faster than life. We have to deal with our fears, problems, and insecurities as well. One of the best ways to learn…
Movies
The Theory of Everything: Discovering a Genius
Much has been said about Stephen Hawking’s life, his illness, his great sense of humor, and his contributions to physics. The Theory of Everything is a 2014 film by James Marsh. In his film, he tries to bring us closer to the British…
Pan’s Labyrinth: When Disobedience is a Duty
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), according to many people, is filmmaker’s Guillermo del Toro best work. This film represents how much he loves fantasy. The movie was really successful. It won numerous awards, including three Oscars: Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best…
Perfect Strangers: Have We Lost Our Privacy?
What would happen if your friends and acquaintances had access to your social media accounts all of a sudden? What do we hide in our cell phones? Perfect Strangers (2017) is a Spanish film directed by Álex de la Iglesia…
Call Me by Your Name: An Experience that Leaves a Mark
It’s difficult to describe what it means to see Call Me by Your Name and how difficult it is to put all the emotions this film makes us relive into words. And I say relive because Call Me by Your Name is more than…
August: Osage County: Family and Psychological Damage
Our families are the starting points that, in many cases, influence us beyond our childhood. In this sense, the film August: Osage County captures a family that’s far from idyllic. This family seems perfect from the outside, but only those on the…