Personal Growth and Self-Help

  • Jul 26, 2021
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Why can't we be happy?
Why can't we be happy?

If you feel happy, you do not need to read this article, but if you feel that something is missing in your life, if you are not completely happy or feel very unhappy, please take a couple of minutes to read these ideas, which may open doors for you in the process of self-knowledge. I do not pretend to theorize about the...

How to improve self-esteem
How to improve self-esteem

The most effective strategy to improve self-esteem is to learn to conceive of yourself in more realistic terms and with acceptance. No problem It helps to want to go from a completely destructive view of yourself to a totally idealized or deceptive one. It is best to learn to relativize failures and accept...

How to be braver in life
How to be braver in life

The force of courage moves the world. In your life you have performed heroic acts when you have overcome fears, you have turned the page of situations that you have been marked or you have fought with all your might for a goal. The truly brave are not in the movies, but starring in real movies. How to be...

How to stop fooling yourself
How to stop fooling yourself

Lying is one of the most frustrating events in personal relationships. However, the deception that hurts us the most is that that we impose on ourselves for fear of opening our eyes to reality. You live with yourself twenty-four hours a day, for this reason, when you condition yourself...

How to feel better about yourself
How to feel better about yourself

You are the protagonist of your life. How you feel in your own skin influences how you position yourself in the world and in your present. In Psychology-Online, we answer this question: how to feel better about yourself? An issue that refers to emotional health and self-esteem. In this article, we give you the...

How to change your life
How to change your life

Someone once said that no one had taught him to look at buildings. Those days, walking along one of the central avenues of the city, he realized that he always walked looking at the ground, but not at the heights. This experience is very common. We walk through life avoiding stepping on excrement...

Exercises to learn to be positive
Exercises to learn to be positive

Surely you have heard many times that, in order to be happier, it is important to have a more positive and optimistic attitude towards life, but is that? how is it achieved? The truth is that it is nothing more than a change of mental chip, making your mind turn over to ensure that everything that you perceive in a...

I have a fat complex: what do I do
I have a fat complex: what do I do

One of the evils that most haunt women in today's society is the fat complex. Most girls, when they look at the mirror, they find something that they don't quite like: the butt, the belly, the thighs, the arms... And it is that we live in a society where the canons of beauty...

Therapeutic theater: definition and benefits
Therapeutic theater: definition and benefits

Since ancient times, human beings have come together to celebrate and share the stories passed down by our ancestors. The Theater has its origin in the first sacred rituals, and its tribal nature has always functioned as a cohesive community, transmitting myths...

How to be more productive in life
How to be more productive in life

Work, home, partner, family... During our life we ​​have a great accumulation of responsibilities and obligations that can make us feel overwhelmed. It is important to know how to organize ourselves well and live without stress and with moments of well-being but, many times, this seems to be incompatible....

How to find myself
How to find myself

Are you feeling a little lost lately? Do you feel that the life you lead does not end up liking you? It is possible that, after a while leaving you carry by the obligations, you have lost the "north" and you do not know very well where you are going. When this point is reached it is important to stop machines and dedicate...

My son does not want to see me: what do I do?
My son does not want to see me: what do I do?

There is a very complex situation in a divorce process. When children show their position towards one parent, then they reflect their disinterest towards the other parent who suffers from this circumstance. When this fact occurs without there being a logical cause that has been able to enhance...

I want to be happy and I can't: what do I do?
I want to be happy and I can't: what do I do?

Happiness is an idealized concept in theory, however, it should be specified in the practice of life. And the best way to contextualize happiness is through joy. That is, while happiness is that ideal that in many moments you see as a distant good, joy is that...

How to lose the fear of public speaking
How to lose the fear of public speaking

The fear of speaking in public is one of the most general and universal that every human being experiences when he feels exposed to opinion alien. Communication skills for public speaking are essential from the first stage of life. Remember that moment when as a student...

Inferiority complex: causes, symptoms and treatment
Inferiority complex: causes, symptoms and treatment

All people at some point have felt inferior in some aspect to another, either because it is better than us in some activity, because he is more intelligent, because of his cultural and / or educational level, physical appearance, etc. However, we also take into account that we can be better than others...

How to overcome the fear of loneliness
How to overcome the fear of loneliness

All of us have experienced or will experience at some stage in our lives the fear of loneliness. This feeling is one of the most difficult that we can experience because the central fear is based on the feeling of abandonment and human beings are social by nature, we need...

How to be happier every day
How to be happier every day

Happiness depends on you. Nobody, except you, can work to fulfill your dreams, to live more joyfully and to grow as person. For this reason, it is important that you begin to make a change in attitude and bet on a more relaxed, optimistic life and, above all, where you are....

Tips to be less introverted
Tips to be less introverted

Do you find it difficult to open up to others? If you are a reserved person who finds it difficult to talk about their feelings and emotions with people who you have confidence, then surely you are an introvert. It is a characteristic that can prevent human relationships from developing naturally...

How to be happy without a partner
How to be happy without a partner

Did you just break up with your partner? We know that this is an emotionally difficult time, basically, because your life can be seen totally different from one day to the next. However, now is the time to take back the reins of your life and live how you really want, independently,...

Why am i always angry
Why am i always angry

Anger is a natural feeling, however, it is not healthy to be angry most of the time. This frequent rage produces a lot suffering. In Psychology-Online, we explain in detail what are the main causes that can lead you to suffer a habitual anger. Then,...

How to be less self-demanding: tips and tricks
How to be less self-demanding: tips and tricks

Being demanding of yourself can be a very negative thing, especially when we ask ourselves for more than we can bear and, in the end, we live in a wheel of frustration, stress and exhaustion. Nobody is a super-hero and, therefore, we cannot expect to achieve impossible milestones for us. But,...

Steps to learn to respect yourself
Steps to learn to respect yourself

If we want others to respect us, respect our rights, our way of life, thinking and feeling, the first step we must to give to achieve it is to learn to respect ourselves. This, which at first seems to be something that we all do unconsciously, not always...

Stop feeling bad about yourself
Stop feeling bad about yourself

Inner peace is an essential requirement to be able to have a good quality of life on an emotional level, however, people are so complex that we can drag a lot of suffering and disenchantment in our life for things we wanted to do but finally, we did not do. And also, by messages...

How to overcome self-pity
How to overcome self-pity

In the life of every person there are hard situations from which it is sometimes impossible to get out: a sentimental failure, the death of a being dear, loss of job, etc. It is normal that before an event of this type we feel sunk for a while, but little by little we will have to recover...

How the thinking mind limits your happiness
How the thinking mind limits your happiness

We live in a society in which the mind and intelligence understood in its intellectual form have a great presence. We are constantly entangled in thoughts that conceptualize situations, moments and events. However, the main trap of the thinking mind is that not everything can be conceptualized...

Feelings that crop up when you're stuck
Feelings that crop up when you're stuck

There may well be times when you feel like you're stuck. We have all been through this type of chapter at some point and it It is true that it is very uncomfortable on an emotional level to live with these unpleasant sensations. Frustration is one of the feelings we have at this stage....

Coping with living alone for the first time
Coping with living alone for the first time

There are people who are terrified of being alone, it is difficult for them to face the idea of ​​living without company and being alone. But it also has its advantages and you have to know how to enjoy solitude in order to later enjoy the company of others. Going to live is just living at least at the beginning, quite an adventure...

5 obstacles to self-improvement
5 obstacles to self-improvement

There are important barriers in the way of personal improvement that can be a brake on your own development. Obstacles that produce a blockage that we must overcome in order to continue. Do you want to know what are the 5 obstacles to personal improvement? Keep reading this article in the...

How to improve self-esteem from the age of 40
How to improve self-esteem from the age of 40

The crisis of the 40s is spoken of as that turning point in the lives of those people who consider their current situation, in relation to with what was the desired state when they were younger. In the same way, beauty products are also promoted from the age of 40 to continue feeding...

How to find your path and vocation
How to find your path and vocation

Finding one's own path is not an easy task, so much so that there are people who first need to find themselves to know where they want to go in their life. It is common that throughout life we ​​have a stage of confusion of not knowing exactly where we should be, but our mind...

How to increase your self esteem
How to increase your self esteem

Self-love is synonymous with self-esteem and personal well-being, therefore, it is important that anyone take a special interest in looking at themselves herself with the eyes of love. However, guilt, over-demand, and negative value judgments that arise from a poor self-concept can...

How to find your place in the world
How to find your place in the world

There is something that is not so simple at first glance: finding your place in the world, that is, being aware that you are at the point where you would like to be, live with the certainty that you would not change your situation for anyone else's. However, in the search for the right path, you may on occasion...

How to overcome hypersensitivity
How to overcome hypersensitivity

Some people spend their lives in sadness, always on the verge of tears. If everything that happens to you affects you a lot or every obstacle discourages you, it's time to say enough. Go ahead and overcome once and for all that hypersensitivity that does not correspond to you.

Learn to take care of yourself
Learn to take care of yourself

Each person has a personal responsibility to take care of himself. Although we are social beings who interact with others on a frequent basis Through love, friendship and companionship, in reality, we cannot delegate our own responsibility to a third person. Take care of yourself...

Qualities of constructive criticism
Qualities of constructive criticism

Some people make it a habit to criticize third parties in conversations when they are absent. This gesture shows little maturity emotional, few concerns as there are much richer topics to share with friends and it is also a lack of respect for others. Within the...

How to get out of existential boredom
How to get out of existential boredom

Boredom is not for children, since adults can be victims of a much deeper feeling of boredom that arises from emptiness existential, the lack of sense of routine and the burden of doing the same day after day. Existential boredom can be a sign of personal crisis that...

What are your personal strengths?
What are your personal strengths?

According to positive psychology, if we want to be happy and achieve our goals, one of our objectives that we must achieve throughout of our life will be to develop our personal strengths, since these are the ones that will help us grow, move forward and overcome any situation...

Basic exercises to encourage positive thinking
Basic exercises to encourage positive thinking

Positive thinking is an attitude towards life that is nourished by habits that you can internalize in your present. What exercises are basic to encourage optimism? First, keep a journal focused solely on describing positive events and situations. Conscious writing helps you...

How to cope with and overcome a crisis of faith
How to cope with and overcome a crisis of faith

Faith is part of the spiritual order of a human being, however, it has a direct effect on other areas of life. Also in the psychological. For example, for a person who has deep religious beliefs, it is important to know that he has divine help in the moments of greatest difficulty,...

The most frequent causes of bad mood
The most frequent causes of bad mood

Many people associate a bad mood with a sad or unforeseen event. However, there are many other factors that alter our state mood and predispose us negatively to reality. For example, sleep problems bring with them the unpleasant consequence of starting the day feeling...

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