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How to accept help and kindness

Accepting help or acts of kindness from other people can sometimes have an anxiety producing effect on us. If you're one of these people, you're not weird, this is quite common - some of us struggle to accept help and kindness from others. In this article we explore ways to overcome this negative habit, turning it into something more useful and productive.

How to use your time wisely: 7 helpful tips

You have more time in your life than you may realise. How you use your time from day-to-day, ultimately dictates the meaning and satisfaction you experience from moment to moment.

Recipe for happiness in 21 days

Psychology as a discipline tends to focus on problems - identifying them, exploring them, and solving them (as best as possible). This article looks at positive psychology, the longest ever psychological study, and the 21 day recipe for happiness.

Why am I so weird? Six reasons why you might be weird

Why am I so weird? You are not alone in thinking this about yourself. There is a substantial group of people in the world who feel this way, and this article explores six possible reasons for this experience of being different, or weird.

5 helpful strategies for the not average (Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit in?)

Just because the world caters to the average, doesn’t mean that’s all there is. This article explains how and why the world caters to the average majority, and suggests 5 simple strategies to help yourself if you’re not average in some way.

What is a safe person? Begin to trust your gut

This article describe why you may find it hard to identify if people in your life or people you meet are safe for you. It then outlines a simple test you can do to make sure that any person you’re dealing with is actually a safe person.

10 Acts of kindness where everybody wins

This is a short list of 10 acts of kindness that will directly benefit the recipient and also give you an instant reward!
This image shows 5 rows of assorted beans, placed on a swathe of white fabric. Each row is made up of 5 beans that are very similar in terms of colour and pattern, but completely different from the other rows. They form a pretty pattern and colour palette that makes me think of how we can cultivate kindness with deliberate intent. And of course beans are a kind of seed that can grow.
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How to cultivate kindness

It's worth making the effort to cultivate kindness wherever you go, and whatever you do. We hear a lot about diet, exercise, goal setting, work-life balance, and other self-focused ways of improving wellbeing, but kindness could trump them all.…

One act of random kindness at a time makes you happier

One act of random kindness at a time won’t exactly make the news. Yet when you start practising kindness on a daily basis, it will make a big difference to your overall wellbeing

Courage is a virtue you already have

Courage is a virtue that you probably already admire in other people. Now, consider that you, along with all human beings, were born with courage. In fact, you’ve naturally demonstrated courage ever since you were a tiny baby.

Choose joy

The lives of others may seem amazing to you. Yet even the super-rich, celebrities, and people who seem to have everything anyone could desire may not remember (or feel able) to choose joy.

What makes a good life?

The notion of what makes a good life has been pondered and discussed by humans for millennia. This article takes a looks at a few of the ideas put forward by some western philosophers.

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