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Can Psilocybin or MDMA Treat Depression and Anxiety?
There's even a study using psilocybin (from mushrooms) to help doctors and nurses suffering from burnout! So why the excitement, and what's the downside? We’ll break it down, recap highs and lows from key studies, explain how these drugs...
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Sleepwalking: When Good Sleep Goes Bad
Sleep disorders affect millions of people. Problems include everything from insomnia to much stranger conditions - like sleepwalking. Hosts Alok Patel, MD and Sheena Williams, RN explain what the brain is supposed to be doing as it...
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Peer Pressure
Dr. Forrester teaches about peer pressure and how to handle social situations.
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Are You Healthy?
Dr. Forrester explains the importance of recognizing mental and emotional well-being for a person’s overall health.
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Why Do Cats Refuse to Eat When There's Still Food in the Bowl?
A frequent reason for a healthy cat to refuse to eat from a bowl with plenty of food left behind is that the cat may have whisker fatigue. Some cats experience whisker fatigue when their highly sensitive whiskers are constantly being...
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Robert Waldinger, MD - The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School who oversees the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of adult life ever conducted. Initiated in 1938 with 724 young men from diverse...
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Dan Ariely - Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
In this talk, Dan Ariely, a psychology and behavioral economics expert at Duke University, discusses his book "Misbelief." He recounts how during the early days of COVID-19, he was deeply involved in assisting governments and companies...
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Interview Question and Answer: How Do You Manage Stress?
In this video, I share an example of how to answer the tough interview question, "how to you manage stress"? The star method is also covered in this video. The star interview method is a technique used by interviewers to ensure that...
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Circadian Rhythms: Why Teens Are Tired in School
When children become teenagers, hormonal changes shift their circadian rhythm—they get tired later. Since schools typically don't adapt to their new natural sleep cycle, they often get less sleep during weekdays, affecting their memory...
Great Big Story
Laugh the Pain Away (Srsly)
Discover the power of laughter yoga and how it can transform lives and create happiness worldwide.
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Interview Question and Answer: How Do You Deal With Pressure
In this video I answer the behavioral interview question 'how do you deal with pressure' by sharing some iron clad interview answers you can utilize in your interview. A few alternatives to this question are how do you deal with pressure...
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The Role of Emotional Healing
Emotional crises or painful life experiences – situations or events – can lead to emotional trauma, and even to serious conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this video, The Role of Emotional Healing, you will...
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Unusual Eateries: From Goldfish Fryers to Dark Stress Release Restaurants
This video showcases innovative and unique dining experiences - from a tempura deep fryer with live goldfish swimming in cool water below to a dark restaurant in Beijing where patrons dine in total darkness and can destress by smashing...
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Relationships and Immunity: The Impact of Happiness and Stress on Flu Vaccination Response
This video discusses how happiness, particularly in the context of a happy marriage, can impact immune response to the flu vaccine. Research conducted at the University of Birmingham found that individuals in happy marriages showed a...
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Emotional Intelligence at Work: Why is it Important?
This is not an academic video, where I describe study after study and cite all the research papers. But I will tell you why Emotional Intelligence is important at work and give you an indication of the range of positive benefits of...
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Emotional Quotient (EQ): The Reuven Bar-On model of Emotional Intelligence
Reuven Bar-On is an American psychologist who coined the term, Emotion Quotient (EQ). He has been working on a model of emotional intelligence since 1982. He studies the ability of emotional and social competence to predict performance...
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Supporting Your Team Under Pressure: Return to High-Performance
When you have a team under pressure, what can you do to support them and return them to a high-performance state?
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Supporting Your Team through Team Stress: 4 Steps
Under pressure, teams get stressed. Team leaders need to be able to spot the signs of stress and support your team through stress.
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Self Regulation: What is it and How to Build It?
The second domain of Emotional Intelligence is Self Regulation. This is about managing your emotional state and the behavioral and social choices you make. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A...
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How to Control Your Nerves Before and During Your Presentation
Many people would say that giving a presentation is the scariest thing they need to do at work. Indeed, some people who do it a lot still find it a real challenge to get their nerves under control. Happily, a little nervousness can give...
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NLP Change Work: How Does NLP Go about Changing People?
The biggest claims that NLP practitioners make are that NLP has a toolkit of methods for helping people to change. This includes things like lack of confidence, uncertainty about decisions, stress, and anxiety. So, what is the basic...
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Milestones and Deadlines for Self-Motivation and Greater Productivity
How do you motivate yourself to be productive and get things done? Milestones and deadlines are great motivators. And they work in slightly different ways. So, to understand self-motivation with milestones and deadlines, take a look at...
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Taking Care of the Wellbeing of People in Your Remote Team
Of course, the final challenge of managing a remote team is to take care of the welfare and wellbeing of people who can be a very long way from you. The usual quiet chat in an informal arrangement is off the table. And so too is your...
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Overcome Overwhelm: Dealing with the Feeling of Being Overwhelmed
When you feel overwhelmed by all the things you need to do, it can freeze you into not doing any of them. This will only make the situation worse. So, you need to seize control. And there's the way. It's my Overwhelm Routine.