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The surprising link between stress and memory - Elizabeth Cox

Let’s Begin…You spend weeks studying for an important test. On the big day, you wait nervously as your teacher hands it out. You’re working your way through, when you’re asked to define "ataraxia." You know you’ve seen the word before, but your mind goes blank. What just happened? Elizabeth Cox details the complex relationship between stress and memory.

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Knowing Ourselves Intellectually vs. Knowing Ourselves Emotionally

It's obviously a great idea to try to understand ourselves, but one of the further distinctions we need to make is between knowing ourselves intellectually and knowing ourselves emotionally. The latter variety of knowledge is rather harder but a good deal more valuable as well.

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The True and the False Self

A good life is one in which we can dare to show our True Self and do not mind too much occasionally having to wear the mask of a False Self. But for this to be possible, we need a certain sort of childhood - as the masterful British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott helped to explain in his theory of the true and the false self, outlined here.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY - Donald Winnicott

Donald Winnicott has lots to teach us about how to look after children - but also about how not to aim for perfection. Being a 'good enough' parent is good enough...

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Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

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The Three Main Parts Of Your Brain by Dr. Russ Harris

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