Being listened to is a need and a necessity, while knowing how to listen is a skill and a foundation of our social relationships. Although listening is a natural skill, it must be cultivated and developed. This fundamental ability to communicate with others is complementary to another one: empathy. In this article, we will look …
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How to develop resilience?
“Resilience is the art of navigating torrents” – Boris Cyrulnik A ‘wonderful adversity’. Resilience represents both the capacity of an individual to cope with everyday life, but also his or her mental capacity to get back on track, to open up new perspectives and to make a new start. It is therefore a psychological phenomenon …
Language immersion, what benefits?
What is a language immersion? Language immersion generally refers to a stay in a foreign country with the aim of reinforcing or maintaining a command of a language. More precisely, it is the fact of being immersed in a more natural linguistic environment, which allows for a more authentic practice of the language, at the …
Antifragility : when adversity makes you better
“Increscunt animi, virescit volere virtus” the spirit grows and strength is restored by the wound – outlined Nietzsche, in the 19th century. Others, such as Grigori Rasputin who, through the process of hormesis, became immune to cyanide by gradually taking large doses, experienced it during their lifetime. This is antifragility. This concept, almost straight up …
Endometriosis: what is this disease?
L’endométriose est une maladie qui n’est pas rare parmi les femmes, mais reste cependant peu connue. Elle concerne généralement les femmes se situant entre les âges de 25 et 50 ans, en sachant que même les adolescentes peuvent elles aussi la subir.
Parler de l’endométriose est un peu ‘tabou’ puisque c’est une pathologie qui est directement liée aux règles qui ne sont ni un sujet qui est joyeux, ni discuté tout court comme nous pouvons le voir à travers diverses expressions qui ont été inventées pour ne pas les évoquer. Cette maladie est douloureuse et n’est malheureusement pas sans risques…
Motivation to change – How to be more motivated and stay motivated?
We have all had the desire, one day, to change one of our habits or a behavior (stop smoking, get up earlier in the morning…). But change can be frightening, especially because it implies novelty on the one hand, and because we often think that we will not be able to change our habits on …
Intra-gender rivalry: STOP creeping!
We are going to address the topic of creeping, it is a subject certainly, very little known but that concerns more than a good handful of people and can have many repercussions, which explains the fact that it is important to address this topic today ! What is “creeping” Creeping, or ” intra-sexual competition ” as Darwin …
The consequences of confinement on the couple’s life
It has been a year since the health crisis totally changed our way of life. Faced with the rapid spread of the coronavirus, the government’s decision was none other than to confine the country on several occasions, causing a break in our routine. Each individual had to adapt to the changes he was confronted with …
Young people and binge-drinking: zoom on this trend
Nous avons tous eu des expériences avec l’alcool, mais le binge-drinking est une manière de consommer qui est présente et trop fréquente chez les jeunes. En effet, les pressions sociales exercées sur les uns et les autres à cet âge résulte trop fréquemment en une consommation trop intensive en peu de temps. De plus, nous avons pu observer à travers différentes études, des conséquences désastreuses à la suite de ce binge-drinking chez les jeunes.
Le slogan ‘boire avec modération’ est justifié si vous voulez éviter des conséquences possiblement néfastes.
Addiction, dependence: what are we talking about?
Today, according to French government figures, there are 14 million daily smokers or 1.5 million regular cannabis users in France. There are also about 41,000 deaths per year attributable to alcohol. When we talk about addiction or dependence, we tend to think of so-called “hard” drugs such as cocaine and heroin, but addictions are not …