Productivity Starts With Courage
I recently starting developing a new deep dive course, which I expect to launch later this calendar quarter. It’s called Engage, and my intentions for it are ambitious. Engage is about optimizing personal productivity and creating a powerfully engaged life. It’s going to be unlike any productivity course or book you’ve ever seen before. This will be our 6th course, and I want it to be our very best one – helping a wide range of people experience major productivity breakthroughs. I’m framing this as our one course to rule them all. I want this to be our #1 flagship course. These are the big r...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Announcements Emotions Productivity Source Type: blogs

Sometimes When I'm Worried - Preorder Now
 " Sometimes When I ' m Worried " is the newest book from my award-winning Sometimes When series. In it, children learn practical strategies for coping with worry and anxiety.Preorder here.With quiet, sensitive illustrations, theSometimes When collection by Dr. Deborah Serani helps young children work through big feelings, such as sadness and anger. The stories are accessible to children and grounded in research from an author with over thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist. A special section at the back of each book provides more information for adults and activities to help young children work throug...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: anxiety author visits books children mental health parenting read-aloud visits well-being Source Type: blogs

What is Life-Enhancing Anxiety?
Essentially, anxiety is a fear of the unknown. But it is also a call to the unknown.             While it may seem counterintuitive, one of our great problems today is too little anxiety, at least of a certain kind. As the psychologist Rollo May and before him philosophers Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard contended, a modicum of anxiety is necessary—and indeed urgent—to live a vital and fulfilled life; at least for many of us.               These&nb...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Schneider Tags: confidence featured happiness psychology self-improvement anxiety mental health Source Type: blogs

The Foods That Protect Against Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are more common in women. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety Source Type: blogs

A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and " benign early repolarization "
Sent by anonymous, written by Pendell MeyersA male in his teens presented with complaints of chest discomfort and dyspnea beginning while exercising but without obvious injury. He immediately stopped exercising and symptoms started to improve. Later that evening he felt recurrent central chest discomfort, shortness of breath, and vomited. Symptoms have been constant since this second episode, and are still present on arrival, which seems to have been less than 1 to 2 hours from onset of symptoms. No similar symptoms in the past. No prior exertional complaints of chest pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, or undue shortness of...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 9, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs