Routines are useful to provide a sense of familiarity, as we mentioned last week. They can also be used as cues to help us do the right thing at the right time. Once a routine, or a habit is established, our brain can put that activity on autopilot, so that it is easier for us to do it without …
Coping with Change and Uncertainty
The year 2020 brought events and situations that none of us could have anticipated. Dealing with change and uncertainty is often difficult, and we have had a year like no other full of changes and unknowns. Studies have documented the profound effect of the pandemic on mental health and offered …
Resiliency and Flexibility
When it comes to coping with life’s challenges, resiliency and flexibility have some things in common. One of the dictionary definitions of resilience is the ability of a material to return to its original shape and size after being compressed or deformed. Hard, inflexible material has little …
Coping with a Pushy Person
Seriously pushy people are called bullies. You can probably imagine the tough kid on the playground, literally pushing people around. Most pushy people we interact with are boundary-pushers—people-pushers in the figurative sense. They are trespassers who do not recognize or do not respect …