When anxious or depressed, we find it hard to make positive changes. here are a few tips for shaping our own lives, and creating a sense of agency and empowerment.
Tag: Self-help
Rediscover what you like
As we get older, our tastes change. To stay authentic, we need to keep on our toes, review our habits, and rediscover what we like.
Emotional wellbeing versus practical work
We need to balance our emotional wellbeing, and getting things done. It’s not ‘either or’, it’s ‘both and’. We need to dance with life.
Three causes of anxiety
Anxiety is inner conflict. Here are three ways we can protect ourselves from anxiety, and reduce our sense of inner conflict.
Managing depression: finding rungs on the ladder
When we are depressed, we find it hard to see how things could improve. Sometimes it helps to lower our sights, and start with small steps.
Projection: why do we push away responsibility?
When we project, we push the responsibility for our being onto someone else. We do it to avoid suffering. But, in fact, we end up losing touch with reality, and creating more suffering.
