The Perils of "I, Me, Mine" and the Surprising Antidote
A powerful self-talk hack that can make you more effective and less anxious. Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Do you remember...
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Anna K. Schaffner
I share here my writings on the art of self-improvement, on burnout, exhaustion, stress, self-care, negative self-talk, Stoicism, ACT, negative core-beliefs, inner critics, and inner saboteurs.
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- May 3
- 4 min
Recognising the Cultural Scripts that Shape Us
The toxic stories that affect us subliminally - and what we can do about them. Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Most of us are...
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- Apr 4
- 4 min
How Honing your Resign-ability Can Empower you at Work
Invest time in developing long-term options and plotting exit strategies. Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Do you feel you...
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- Mar 8
- 5 min
Is This It? 4 Key Reasons for Mid-Life Languishing
... and how we can overcome it. Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today It is a truth universally acknowledged that happiness is a...
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- Feb 23
- 5 min
The Truth about Self-Hatred. And How We Can Overcome it.
Psychology Today | Anna Katharina Schaffner The truth about self-hatred, and its more subtle cousins low self-worth, low self-esteem, and...
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- Dec 13, 2022
- 5 min
Why Quiet Quitting is a Dangerous Concept
Psychology Today | Anna Katharina Schaffner "Quiet quitting" has generated a flurry of headlines in 2022. Results of a 2022 Gallup survey...
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- Nov 24, 2022
- 6 min
Tired of Being Tired? 5 Ways of Overcoming Burnout that Work
Psychology Today | Anna Katharina Schaffner Are you tired of living to work rather than working to live? Perhaps you are already in the...
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- Nov 1, 2022
- 5 min
Is How You are Working Working for You?
Why productivity-boosting regimes may be bad for us Psychology Today | Anna Katharina Schaffner Many of my coaching clientscome to me...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 6 min
Whatever happened to 'Workaholism'?
Why the term has disappeared and why that should concern us Psychology Today | Anna Katharina Schaffner Recently I came across a...
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- May 18, 2022
- 7 min
Why Manifesting is Bad for Us
... and what it can tell us about our present cultural moment Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today “Manifesting” is one of the...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 6 min
Do you feel heavy, exhausted, depleted and weighed down?
Why our Mind-Metaphors Matter Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I have always been fascinated by the metaphors we use to...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 6 min
5 Reasons Why Perfectionism Can Make Us Ill
How Our Inner Perfectionist Can Drive Us Into Exhaustion Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I see the best minds of my...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 5 min
What's So Great About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
7 reasons why I love ACT Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Most of you will already have heard of Acceptance and Commitment...
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Burnout Paradox: Burnout and the Circle of Control
Notes on Exhaustion Blog #1 By Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY There is a huge paradox at the heart of burnout debates:...
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 6 min
Is Our "Me-First" Culture Waning?
There are signs that the tide is finally beginning to turn against self-centred individualism. In our age of pandemics, populism, and ...
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Art of Humility
But humility does not mean meekness, and neither does it equate to weakness. In fact, this ancient virtue has nothing to do with adopting a
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 4 min
Crisis Management, Ancient-Style
The belief that we can control our feelings by controlling our thoughts is both the most simple and also the most radical premise on which m
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Power of Altruism
In times like these, it is of the essence to keep our minds and bodies strong. Not to give in to dejection and fear. To find activities that
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