Author: Leslie Bosch, PhD

35SHARESShareTweet Looking for ways to boost your mental health? This article highlights five science-backed strategies you can use. Scientists tell us there are certain things we can do to improve our mental wellbeing. These techniques will help you feel more positive about yourself. They show you how to boost your mental health during the low points in your life. Once you know that, nothing can stop you from getting what you want out of life. Here are 5 reliable...

35SHARESShareTweet Misery is optional. How so? In this article, I’ll highlight a variety of ways you can develop resiliency and thereby make misery optional. You’ve seen the stories where an average person successfully bounces back from great adversity. People who bounce back know how to move forward and start over again. Why is it that some people seem to bounce back from any sort of adversity and others do not? Resilience is important. It’s the primary...

30SHARESShareTweet This article will detail 5 steps you can use to finally defeat perfectionism! We all have moments where we fall into perfectionism. For some of us, this might happen kind of often. For others, it’s reserved for those special occasions where we have a project where we can’t rest until we get it right. While occasional super-attention-to-detail is okay, it’s when we make perfectionism a way of life where it becomes a problem. Those...

30SHARESShareTweet When was the last time you felt relaxed? Check out these 15 simple ways to stress less. Stress affects all systems of the body including the musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nervous, and reproductive systems. So, it’s easy for stress to build up without you realizing what is happening. After a while, you might think that feeling irritable, sad, or restless is just your natural state. Meanwhile, chronic...

25SHARESShareTweet Is regret weighting you down? This article is full of ways to deal with regret effectively. According to Wikipedia regret is “the emotion of wishing one had made a different decision in the past, because the consequences of the decision were unfavorable.” If your feeling regretful, you’re not alone! Top regrets among older people include: not being careful enough when choosing a life partner, not resolving a family estrangement,...

40SHARESShareTweet Create happiness during tough times, really? Upheaval drags everyone down. A crisis wears on a person, eroding mood and destroying optimism. As you go into survival mode, it becomes harder and harder to hold onto any kind of joy at all. Instead, your days are taken up with emotions such as worry, anxiety, depression, anger, frustration, and fear. It seems like a pretty tough time to find happiness, doesn’t it? Yet, more than ever, this is precisely...