Self-Image: How We See Ourselves and Why It Matters
All of us tend to think that we’re okay and it’s everyone else who’s all screwed up. But usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Others have their flaws, we have ours.
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in July, 2014.
All of us tend to think that we’re okay and it’s everyone else who’s all screwed up. But usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Others have their flaws, we have ours.
Sometimes when I’m stressed, and need relief, I’ll conjure up a memory of a picturesque landscape and use the natural world as an antidote for emotional distress and malaise — “landscape therapy,” I sometimes call it.
There’s something inherently satisfying about poking fun at public figures, but good satire is about more than just poking fun at people. It calls our attention to important but possibly scary or forbidden things in a palatable way.
Therapy can be a rewarding and empowering experience, a great facilitator of growth — or it can be an enabler of dysfunction.
Rates of human physical development have accelerated in recent years, but many of us are maturing much later than we used to on other important dimensions, such as “getting it” with respect to what life is all about.
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