Social connection is a matter of survival not preference. Our clever evolutionary design has urged us to connect, ensuring the proliferation of the species. The need to belong is in fact just as critical to your wellbeing as having food and shelter.
Marie Rowland
Marie Rowland is a therapist in private practice on Sydney’s northern beaches helping people resolve the underlying issues that perpetuate conflict or disconnectedness so they can create meaningful and happy lives. Marie speaks at conferences, forums and community events on a variety of topics from wellbeing and positive psychology to practical philosophy.
In a rapidly changing environment, it is no longer about survival of the fittest or the fastest, but rather survival of the most flexible.
Social media can often make us feel inadequate or not good enough. Do you want to move away from comparison and towards self-acceptance?
By medicalising your emotions, you reduce or minimise your true self and look to problem solve rather than to understand what is really going on for you. Learn how to stop fixing and start feeling again.
Oscar Wilde is credited with saying, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Easier said than done, perhaps. In a world where we are expected to look and act in a certain way, we end up pleasing everyone but ourselves. In order to belong we bury our true selves and this can lead to despair. So how would it feel if the only role you play this lifetime is to just be yourself?
If you view the notion of discipline in a positive light, it can become an ally to help you to live your best life.
It’s not what you’re looking at but rather from where you’re looking; perspective plays a powerful role in how you experience life. What do you see when you look?
Routine can be the difference between success and failure and can even improve your wellbeing and propensity to live a happy, meaningful life. We take a look.
Society loves a winner, but every successful person you know or admire has failed at some point. It’s in the journey where self-discovery and true character is found.
The pursuit of happiness is a human quest yet, when you focus less on being happy and more on connecting with others and your life purpose, your goal may just find you.
It’s time to step away from the screens and move into that wondrous experience we call living. Go on, turn that screen off.
Where does motivation come from, how can you get it and, most importantly, how can you keep it going? We investigate.
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