Lily’s Blog
How to Boost Your Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is crucial in almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. It comes in handy in helping ensure comfort in our interpersonal interactions. Low self-confidence can greatly impair your ability to prosper in virtually every other undertaking you may...
Tips for Staying Motivated
Many of us have goals in both our personal and professional endeavors. However, it isn’t always easy to stay on task and remain motivated in our efforts. Our busy lives can catch up with us, and sometimes it can seem difficult to get everything done that we would like...
How to Avoid Workplace Burnout
Recently, the World Health Organization announced that burnout is now considered an official medical diagnosis. Burnout can happen to anyone, at any time, and at any place. It is typically characterized by feelings of exhaustion or depletion, negativism, cynicism, and...
The Benefits and Costs of Perfectionism and Its Effects on Well-Being: Part II
Read Part I here. Health Effects of Perfectionism Indeed, as a personal quality of high achievers, perfectionism can often be used as a tool to transcend one's limitations, but its effects can also be debilitating in the extreme. Take the example of the pianist Glenn...
The Benefits and Costs of Perfectionism and Its Effects on Well-Being: Part I
Throughout the world, perfectionism is a personal quality that has been both idealized and denigrated in equal measure. Films such as "Amadeus" (1984) and "Shine" (1996) were both hugely successful meditations on the relationship between perfectionism and the...
Ivan Pavlov and Conditional Learning Theory
One of the breakthroughs in behavioral science, known as Conditional Learning Theory, came about in the early 1900s through the work of a Russian scientist named Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Most people have heard references to Pavlov’s dogs, or Pavlovian theory, but...
Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs
What motivates humans to take action? This has long been a fascinating topic for students of human behavior. One of the most important contributors to this area of psychological research is Abraham Maslow, who published a paper laying out his groundbreaking...
The Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Newer models of addiction have replaced the old disease theory with focussing on the psychological, as opposed to the physiological, ways that people grow addicted to activities and substances. Activities include eating and gambling; substances include drugs and...
3 Healthy Habits That Can Also Improve Your Mental Health
When you have a physical issue, ailment or pain, you might see a doctor. If you are having a mental health issue, you might see a mental health counselor or therapist, and if you were struggling spiritually, you might see a pastor, priest, shaman or some other type of...
Mental Health E-Therapy Evolves
About 1 in every 5 Americans out of a population of over 40 million are affected by a mental health condition. Many fail to seek mental health treatment due to the inconvenience of busy schedules and wanting to keep matters discreet. Technology has caused waves in...