Category: Workplace
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Setting Emotional Boundaries: How It Impacts Your Well-Being
Healthy boundaries are all about living life on your terms. Learn more about how setting emotional boundaries can positively affect your well-being. We see boundaries everywhere in our daily lives; whether it be the fences or gates we put up to refrain people from coming into our space, or the designated lanes that cars follow…
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Emotions: Our Inner GPS for Life
People often come to therapy wanting help with getting rid of unwanted emotions. Sadness, guilt, grief, fear, and anger are often labelled as “bad” emotions. Many only want to experience “good” feelings, namely happiness. However, all emotions are fundamentally adaptive. They are little helpers sending us messages about what is happening in our environment, like…
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Coping with transition grief
National Grief Awareness Day on August 30th was developed to promote a greater awareness and understanding of the multitude of ways in which individuals cope with loss, as well as encourage a more open discussion about loss and bereavement and inform people about the realities of grief. Due to the very nature, depth and breadth…
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Dealing with Burnout
“The biggest problem with burnout is that it disguises itself as hard work.“ – David Heinemeier Hansson In today’s fast-paced world, burnout has become an increasingly prevalent issue affecting individuals in various aspects of their lives. Singapore, often dubbed as a bustling hub of productivity, is no exception to the growing concerns surrounding burnout. The…
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Sneaky Things That Can Mess with Your Mood
By now it’s pretty well known that things like lack of sleep, elevated stress and lack of movement or exercise can mess with your mood. However, there are other, less obvious influences that may be silently wrecking their havoc as well — ones that may require just a bit more investigation. So why not start…
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Prioritising Men’s Health: International Men’s Health Week
International Men’s Health week is an annual global initiative that aims to raise awareness of men’s health issues, promote healthy lifestyles, fight stigma surrounding men’s health and encourage men to prioritise their well-being. Celebrated in June each year, this week-long initiative aims to bring attention to the physical and mental health challenges faced by men…
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The Weight of Loneliness
Through the pandemic, all of us experienced the importance of social connections and its fundamental role in our well-being. Beyond these specific circumstances, everyone is at risk of experiencing loneliness at some point in their lives, which, research has shown, to have major impacts on health and well-being. Some countries have started to grasp the…
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Meditation – 5 tips for starting (and keeping) a practice
According to researchers at Harvard University, our minds are lost in thought 47% of the time. These thoughts regularly stem from two sources: dwelling on the past (rumination) or worrying about the future. Meditation is a practice that helps people through training the mind to focus on the present moment and to ‘just be’. Most…
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Happy World Ego Awareness Day!
I can imagine that many of you reading this are asking, what is World Ego Awareness Day? You may even be thinking, with all the other celebrations and days to commemorate various people, groups and events in our life, why observe this one? When I first heard about this day, I must admit that I…
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Simple mindful exercises that can improve focus
If you are a multitasker like me, you might be used to doing many things simultaneously. While multitasking is efficient, we develop different routines and habits over time and consistently operate in the “automatic pilot” mode, which is doing something without paying attention. Our brains are wired to be distracted. A study has shown that…
