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Words Shape Emotions

Words Shape Emotions

Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

Part of my upcoming product for Generation Zen, Introvert’s Guide to Fear of Public Speaking.

Working Theory: Human Potential and Limitations

Working Theory: Human Potential and Limitations

Posted on May 25, 2021May 25, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply
The solution to chronic stress is not individual Psychology

The solution to chronic stress is not individual Psychology

Posted on April 13, 2021March 25, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

I’m a big proponent of self-care and other individual tools that we teach as mental health professionals. Yet I’m also acutely aware of its limitations. I think of people back in Manila now who are feeling rage and helplessness over the rising COVID cases. I think of our Asian American community who’s feeling fear due…

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Mental Health: What are we striving For?

Mental Health: What are we striving For?

Posted on April 6, 2021March 25, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

We are in the age of A.I., where everything is about optimization and increasing capacity. It is easy to mistake functioning like robots as the pillar for being a healed person. But what constitutes technological growth is not the same as human growth. We are living creates who feel, who laugh, who grieve. We feel…

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Evolutionary Mechanism Behind Overachieving

Evolutionary Mechanism Behind Overachieving

Posted on January 18, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

I want to be all because I can be all. This is a very appealing narrative. However, instead of arguing the feasibility of attaining perfection, the more important question is why—why want to be all? Answering the question of utility before feasibility allows one to save time and energy. Not knowing why we are doing certain things is…

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Nietzsche as Solace During Times of  Uncertainty

Nietzsche as Solace During Times of Uncertainty

Posted on January 12, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

Amor fati: Lover of Fate. That one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it…” -Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s…

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How to Maintain Friendships Without Going Insane

How to Maintain Friendships Without Going Insane

Posted on March 13, 2020January 12, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

Your ability to connect with people is your superpower.  It’s incredible how you have a 50-year-old best friend from China and an 18-year-old pal from New York.  Having a social circle that resembles the United Nations is marvelous to have. You get to have friends to enjoy a good meal with everywhere you go.  What…

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The 42 Books That Shaped My 2019

The 42 Books That Shaped My 2019

Posted on December 29, 2019January 12, 2021Author cristinePosted in PsychologyLeave a Reply

“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.” -Nicolas Carr My Top 5 Books 2019 Simone De Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair (Biography): Recommend this book to anyone interested in how Simone turned from Sartre’s doll to a…

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