The Disease of Being Busy | On Being I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost immediately after, I ran into another friend and asked him how he was. Again, same tone, same response: “I’m just so busy… got so much to do.” The tone was exacerbated, tired, even overwhelmed. And it’s not just adults. After we settled in, we went to one of the friendly neighbors, asking if their daughter and our daughter could get together and play. Horribly destructive habits start early, really early. How did we end up living like this? Whatever happened to a world in which kids get muddy, get dirty, get messy, and heavens, get bored? How did we create a world in which we have more and more and more to do with less time for leisure, less time for reflection, less time for community, less time to just… be? Somewhere we read, “The unexamined life is not worth living… for a human.” W.
Post-Pandemic Burnout Spurs The "Great Resignation" Among Workers I’ll tell you one thing for sure, my outlook this July is certainly a lot brighter than that of July 2020. After such a long and difficult 18 months, it’s starting to feel like things are finally getting back to some type of normal. I finally have the chance to connect with my career coaching clients in person again, which, let me tell you, has been such a blessing. While I know I tend to be an optimist—and don’t we all deserve a bit of positivity? Despite all the good news in the fight against Covid-19, workers are still very much grappling with the fallout (and the burnout) from the many changes that have come to the world of work since March 2020. In May, Anthony Klotz, associate professor of Management at Texas A&M made major waves when he told Bloomberg Businessweek that we should expect a “great resignation,” as many workers, fed up with the challenges of remote work during a pandemic, hang up their hats and call it quits at their current jobs. First of all, burnout is a real thing.
In Order To Find The Perfect Antidepressant: Get Your Hands Dirty While Gardening! There is a small bacteria called mycobacterium that people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, or other similar issues, should know all about. Scientists claim that this – and maybe other microorganisms – has a comparable positive effect on humans as pharmaceutical have. However, it is important to mention that the negative side effects, observed with regards to pharmaceutical, are not included in the case of this bacteria. Start getting your hands dirty in the compost or topsoil while gardening. The only thing you need is to get into direct contact with the soil or even just breathe the air around it. The microbes found in the soil have similar effects on the brain as antidepressant medicines have, but without creating a potential chemical dependence. There is a proven link between soil microbes and an improvement in human health.
vice When she started her podcast, Bad With Money, in 2016, Gaby Dunn went to a coffee shop and asked patrons what their favourite sex positions were. She got a variety of answers from people happy to chat, including the barista. Then she asked everyone how much money they had in their bank accounts. She was met with a lot more resistance—money is deeply personal, after all. She went about challenging this social hangup with her podcast, and with her subsequent memoir-cum-self-help book, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together, coming out in the new year. When a certain generation of experts claim millennials are increasingly “deciding” to freelance, it might be time to turn elsewhere for financial advice. Dunn isn’t a financial expert in the traditional sense. Dunn has built up her online brand while jumping from job to job, contract to contract, freelance gig to freelance gig, and she’s done so while saddled with a ton of student debt. Good.
How to Stop Saying Yes When You Want to Say No “Live your life for you not for anyone else. Don’t let the fear of being judged, rejected or disliked stop you from being yourself” ~Sonya Parker I am a sucker for saying yes. Sometimes I even find myself thinking “no, no, no, no” and then I blurt out “yes.” Why is it so difficult to say the word “no”? It’s just a word, right? After feeling trapped for some time by my excessive urge to be agreeable, it got me thinking. I asked myself why it was so important for me to please everyone, to the point that I would feel resentful and stressed because of it. I realized I was afraid of saying no because my biggest fear is rejection. Having people think negatively of me is the ultimate rejection. And so I realized exactly why I found it so difficult to say no. I realize this is not just a challenge that I face, but one that many people go through every day. If, like me, you’re having trouble saying no, this may help. Saying No Doesn’t Mean You’re a Bad Person Knowing Your Value Is It Really Worth It?
Why aren’t millennials buying houses? - Curbed The millennial generation came of age under the shadow of the housing bust in 2008, and while the housing market has since recovered in most American markets, many millennials remain unable or unwilling to ditch renting in favor of homeownership. Given the United States makes homeownership central to wealth building, this is potentially problematic for the future financial prospects of the nation’s largest-ever generation, particularly at a time when income and wealth inequality is so entrenched. A new report from the Urban Institute takes a deep dive into why the millennial homeownership rate remains stubbornly below that of other generations. For millennials ages 25 to 34, homeownership is 8 percentage points lower than baby boomers at that age and 8.4 points lower than Generation X. There’s no single reason for relatively low millennial homeownership. Rather, it’s a confluence of socioeconomic trends that serves as an impediment to millennials purchasing a piece of the American dream.
Smiling Depression Source: Shutterstock / arvitalyaa By Rita Labeaune, Psy.D. How many people do you imagine look happy, but struggle with depressive thoughts on a daily basis? Typically depressed people are depicted as being bed-ridden and incapable of functioning. What may or may not be surprising is, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, that approximately 10 percent of the United States population is suffering from depression, which is 10 times more than those suffering from bipolar disorder (1 percent) and schizophrenia (1 percent). Not everyone experiences depression in the same way. article continues after advertisement In my practice, those who are most surprised to realize they're experiencing some form of depression are those suffering from “smiling depression.” The hallmark of smiling depression is sadness. Other common symptoms of smiling depression are feelings of anxiety, fear, anger, fatigue, irritability, hopelessness, and despair.
Millennials Aren't 'Killing' Industries, We're Just Broke, Study Finds Just some stock image millennials trying to make ends meet. Photo via Getty For years, the personal habits of millennials have been pored over as if the generation now between 21 and 35 years old had descended from outer space. Millennials have been accused of "killing" everything from malls to threesomes to golf to home ownership. Along the way, various theories about young adults have been floated—maybe they're spending too much on avocado toast to buy homes, maybe they aren't going to casinos because they can play games on their phones. The November study, which has been covered by NPR, among other outlets, notes that the "economic wellbeing of the millennial generation, which entered its working-age years around the time of the 2007-09 recession, has received considerable attention from economists and the popular press," but finds that "millennials do not appear to have preferences for consumption that differ significantly from those of earlier generations."
Warning: "Hanging in there" is destroying your health Sucking it up is highly overrated. We operate in a society where it seems as if there is some secret committee that hands out awards for people who work through any sickness, embrace sleep depravation or race through the work day without eating. It took me over 36 years to be able to admit to myself that no one was going to give me a gold star for constantly pushing myself forward. I started asking others why they felt compelled to soldier on, and there seemed to be a few common themes: parents’ expectations growing up, needing to prove oneself and fear of rejection or loss. When I look back on the years that I refused to admit weakness of any kind, I don’t think anyone could have convinced me to ease up. The only reason I finally changed my pace was a health issue that brought me to a grinding halt. The problem is that no one sees it coming. Why we end up paying with our health When we are constantly functioning with high stress levels, our body stays in “fight or flight” mode.
Popular Crochet Pattern Categories | Crochet Patterns Depression is A Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure Depression is not a natural disease. It’s a disease caused by our high-stress, industrialized lifestyle, psychologist argues. Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. It robs people of sleep, energy, focus, memory, sex drive and their basic ability to experience the pleasures of life, says psychology professor and author of The Depression Cure Stephen Ildari. Depression lights up the pain circuitry of the brain to such an extent that many of Ildari’s psychiatric patients have called it torment, agony and torture. But depression is not a natural disease. Depression is the result of a prolonged stress-response, Ildari said. “The problem is for many people throughout the Western world, the stress response goes on for weeks, months and even years at a time, and when it does that, it’s incredibly toxic,” Ildari said. Civilization is the disease The Cure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Exercise is ‘not natural’