The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths
When it comes to self-improvement, we have much to learn from our ancestors and other cultures. What is more, self-improvement practices...
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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.
To see all my journalistic writings please see here.
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 6 min
Mind you Mind-Metaphors
You’re Not a Computer, You’re a Tiny Stone in a Beautiful Mosaic Metaphors matter. Far from being mere ornamental flourishes that render...
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 12 min
Living With Your Inner Critic
Living With Your Inner Critic: 8 Helpful Worksheets and Activities
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 10 min
Perseverance in Psychology
Perseverance refers to our ability to pursue a goal or passion over time, and stick with it if we encounter obstacles or setbacks.
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 10 min
How To Practice Self-Care
Self-care continues to be a popular buzz-word.
But while it persistently grabs headlines, it also remains a fuzzy concept.
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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
- 10 min
Identifying and Challenging Core Beliefs
What are core beliefs, and why do they matter?
Core beliefs are our most deeply held assumptions about ourselves, the world, and others.
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 11 min
7 Best Books to Help You Find The Meaning of Life
Broadly speaking, the theorists of meaning fall into two camps. Some believe that life has no intrinsic meaning and that we must construct o
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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
What's So Great About Self-Knowledge?
Self-knowledge, then, quite simply improves our chances of making wiser choices. It turns us into better pilots of our lives, yielding maste
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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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- Mar 15, 2022
- 6 min
Whatever works?
Julia Buckley and Nick Duerden, two journalists suffering from chronic pain and chronic fatigue respectively, have written thought-provoking
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 11 min
Lose yourself
Today, we must consider the extent to which the internet and the various electronic devices and apps on which we rely are altering not just
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 5 min
Why exhaustion is not unique to our overstimulated age
What often goes unnoticed, though, is that anxieties about exhaustion are not peculiar to our age. Those who imagine that life in the past w
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 8 min
It’s all in your head
To illustrate what it is like to be trapped in a particular system of knowledge, Michel Foucault referred his readers to the movement of cel
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