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This is a follow up case-study from my previous post, so do go back and take a look if this topic resonates with you. Many of the young people and families who come to me are already exhausted. It’s only October as I’m writing this. I, as a business owner, am already quite tired and […]
Joy as an Antidote to Burnout in Education- Empowering Neurodivergent Learners
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Dust yourself off!
Sometimes, when I sit down to write a poem, my mind goes blank. I have a prompt in front of me, yet I pick up my pen only once in one whole hour to ask a question that I already know the answer to… What is a poem? I have a master’s degree in creative […]
How To Overcome Writer’s Block In Poetry
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Language and Psychic Development
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Towards Understanding Society
Perfectionism is the ultimate form of self-deception. Perfectionists tend to fluctuate between believing they’re perfect, resisting the notion that they caused any meaningful harm (even to themselves), and believing they can become perfect, minimizing past harm with the excuse that they’re engaged in meaningful self-work. On the surface, perfectionism is a way to avoid accountability. At […]
Perfectionism Is a Form of Self-Deception
Object relations theorists use the concept of internal objects to provide insights into human action, but what exactly are these internal objects? Where are they located and how are they able to play such a role in our lives? In his 1983 paper The Concept of Internal Object Relations, U.S. psychoanalyst, Thomas Ogden, sketches the […]
Ogden and the Problem of Inner Objects
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