Companies scale — and relationships develop — at the speed of communication.

This suggests that if you’re frustrated by plateaus in your business or by emotional distance and recurring conflicts in your marriage, you’d do well to look at the patterns in your communication (particularly when stressed). 

Good communication is a meta-skill. It will allow you to fulfill your goals in your business and your close relationships much more effectively.

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The question for the gifted individual in the throes of psychological suffering is not: “How do I rid myself of these symptoms?”

Rather it’s:

“What do these ask of me? What do they make possible?”

Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory of Positive Disintegration suggests that many common symptoms — anxiety, depression, disquietude, shame, guilt, and inferiority in relation to one’s own ideals — are often positive signs of something profound at work.

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Does trauma make us fat?

Clients often tell me that they experience difficulty with their weight despite being active and diligent with their nutrition.

While doing some research this morning, I came across a line that fascinated me - and sheds light on the situation…

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Mental health isn’t rocket science.

However, a bit of rocket science can go a long way.

The more time I spend in the world of clinical psychology, the more apparent it becomes that many people — including professionals in the field — are painfully confused as to the development of psychological wellbeing.

That’s where the rocket science comes in.

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You may be familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s a cognitive bias, in which people with lower ability tend to overestimate themselves, whereas people with higher ability tend to underestimate themselves - at least until true mastery is developed.

As people begin to develop their skills or knowledge in a particular domain, it’s common that their confidence increases far more rapidly than does their actual ability.

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I can often count on my clients to communicate what we’re up to better than I possibly could.

You know well enough that entrepreneurship is stressful. And yet how much extra strain are you putting on yourself by treating your body as an afterthought?

I find it helpful to think of performance as a three-tiered triangle.

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