Archive for June, 2006

How to Choose a Passionate Career

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Even if we accept it or not, our career and work define our life, our identity. But usually we don’t choose our career being aware of our deeper passions. We choose it either being influenced by our social and economical context (people around us and community’s economical and industrial development) or being motivated by money.
But […]

The Quick Fix and The Long-term Fix

Friday, June 16th, 2006

In the field of psychotherapy, the therapies may be classified in two categories, if you take into account the criterion of time: short-term therapies and long-term therapies. The first ones range from one to about ten sessions, while the last ones tend to be longer.
If we take into account efficiency, there is enough evidence […]

7 Habits of Unhealthy People

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Unhealthy People = Unhealthy Lifestyles (practices & habits).
People are often their own worst enemy. So many of the ailments and afflictions that plague us are our own fault. We eat too much of the wrong kinds of foods, we smoke, we drink and we bake in the sun and poison ourselves with illegal drugs or […]

9 Happy Family Indicators

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Often psychological work consists of dysfunctions explanations, and rarely of excellence modeling. Barbara Kerr, psychology professor at the University of Kansas, took the last way and focused on what happens in strong families.
Here are nine indicators of strong and happy families:

strong and happy families don’t focus on money, they build their own philosophy of […]