-
Anxiety, Depression, and Academic Performance: The Role of Working Memory Capacity
-
Why you should Double your Anxiety in Therapy
This article is authored by Alan Garcia and Arielle Radin and is a part of the 2018 pre-graduate spotlight week Despite being unpleasant, fear and anxiety are critical to our survival since they allow us to predict and escape from aversive events that might harm us. However, there comes a point when that fear and…
-
Surrendering to Creativity: The Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 3 of 3)
Up until graduate school, I often indulged the myth that good writing was a sacred thing to be done under the most precise conditions. Akin to knowing without a timer when the soufflee has finished (sorry, I have holidays sweets on the mind), the creativity dedicated to a well-written piece had to be carefully cultured…
-
Surrendering to Creativity: The Psychology of Remembering To Breathe (Part 2 of 3)
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” – T.S. Eliot What does it mean, for anxiety to be the handmaiden to creativity? Reading this quote from T.S. Eliot, my mind wandered to think about Shae and Sansa. For those less obsessed with George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones than me, Shae is Sansa Stark’s handmaiden in the imaginary…
-
Surrendering to Creativity; the Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 1 of 3)
-
Why won’t my baby stop clinging to me? The waxing and waning of stranger anxiety
Does your 6-to-12-month-old infant follow you around the room like a shadow, cry in the presence of unfamiliar people, and refuse to be comforted or held by anyone but you? No worries! This is a normal part of development. As exhausting as this phase may be for you, it will pass, and your baby will…