Personal Development

Achieving goals, overcoming adversity, improving your skills, finding out your strengths… All this aspects and many more make up one of the most interesting parts of psychology: personal development.

Personal DevelopmentHow to Eliminate the Damaging Feelings of Resentment

Resentment is a negative emotion that usually appears when you feel that someone has behaved badly toward you and hurt…

Personal DevelopmentYour Happiness Is In Your Own Hands

Your incessant search to achieve happiness can lead you to become obsessed with obtaining it, even though you often don't…

Personal DevelopmentWhat Should You Do When You Feel Envy?

Envy is a feeling that expresses the desire to be like another person or have what they possess. It's often…

Personal DevelopmentHow Much Time Does it Take to Develop a Habit?

How long does it take to incorporate a habit into your repertoire of behaviors? How long does it take to…

Personal DevelopmentIt's the Simple Things in Life That Make You Happy

The simple things in life are like the stars that shine on clear nights. They're always there, surrounding you with…

Personal DevelopmentLearn From Your Mistakes

During your life, you'll face difficult moments, situations when you'll take the wrong path. After all, you're only human and it's natural that you...

Personal DevelopmentHow to Improve Your Emotional Responsibility

Emotional responsibility means taking charge, not only of your behavior but also of what you think and feel. In short,…

Personal DevelopmentHow to Enrich Your Way of Giving Thanks to Others

Would you like to give a gift to the people around you that'd completely change your life? A gift you…

Personal DevelopmentTime to Move On and Sanitize Your Sadness

"A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a…

Personal DevelopmentPsychological Space: The Heart of Resilience

Psychological space is a dimension that you often neglect. However, you shouldn't ignore it. Because it's this space that allows…

Personal DevelopmentIt's Our Dreams That Light Our Way

A long-awaited reunion... that unwritten novel... playing a couple of impossible notes on your guitar... the birth of your child...…

Personal DevelopmentThe Importance of Living in the Present

Living in the present moment is something you're probably well aware of, but don't carry out. That's because you're always…

Personal DevelopmentWhat Are Social Skills and Why Are They So Important?

As a human, you're a social being. Therefore, communicating with others is necessary. It allows you to survive, grow, nourish…

Personal DevelopmentCompersion: Feeling Joy For The Happiness of Others

The word compersion refers to the state of happiness produced by perceiving happiness in another. Arguably, it's about empathy at…

Personal DevelopmentEmotional Decompression

The technique of emotional decompression is used to help in states of intense and sustained stress over time. Indeed, at these times, you're actual...

Personal DevelopmentPractical Emotional Intelligence: Oxytocin Versus Cortisol

Some time ago, while surfing the net, I came across a video about practical emotional intelligence. It was a short,…

Personal DevelopmentWho Are You? Ten Questions to Ask Yourself to Find Out

Have you ever wondered who you are? It's a philosophical question that we've all asked ourselves at some time or…

Personal DevelopmentThe Spiral of Silence: Staying Quiet Due to the Fear of Rejection

The spiral of silence defines behavior in which someone (a minority) chooses to keep quiet about their opinion for fear…

Personal DevelopmentThinking Traps: What They Are and How to Detect Them

Thinking traps are negative reasoning patterns. You can imagine them as labyrinths in which your common sense and your ability…

Personal DevelopmentWhat Can You Do When Everything Seems to Go Wrong For You?

There are days when it just seems like you've gotten off on the wrong foot. Maybe you need to get…

Personal DevelopmentThe Mental Strategy to Use to Achieve What You Want

Your mind and thoughts have much more power than you imagine. The beliefs you hold can limit you or push…