If you’re having trouble respecting yourself, here’s how you can start. — Self-respect is the first step in building healthy self-esteem and a stable ego. When we don’t respect ourselves, we let people or institutions around us dictate our worth, manipulate us, or gaslight us into forgetting our inherent value. Many people lose the ability to respect themselves when aspects of their…

A story of merging the real with the virtual — One of the first signs that I could possibly fall into gaming addiction was when I started playing Ragnarok Online at seven years old. Growing up, I was a problematic middle child with a penchant for getting into trouble. I would cut classes, run away from home, and at one…

There’s more than one way to win — Growing up, I had always been fascinated with Magic The Gathering, but I have also found it intimidating. I’d pass by hobby shops where competitions would take place. Dozens of people, mostly men, would sit on foldable chairs with various colored cards in their hands. It always looked so serious…

Despite being the oldest Western form of psychotherapy, hypnotic therapy has been tainted with images of stage tricks and cult-like representations. While how effective hypnosis is highly dependent on the individual, many studies have shown that they can be used for therapeutic means. As modern medicine advances, many studies have…

Within 7 seconds, people have already made their mind about you as a person; Here is how to make every second count. You do not get a second chance at first impressions. …

It’s all fun and games until someone dies… Literally. Forty reality TV show stars dead later; we still have not learned our lesson. In the modern world, sensory overload is increasingly becoming common. Many of us routinely feel trapped in the endless cycle of bad news after bad news —…

Many of us who experience trauma or abuse early in our lives have had to grow up sooner than we’d have hoped. We lose our ability to be in tune with our inner child whom we have had to lock up to maintain control over our lives. These illusions of…

As the world around us changes, people are starting to realize one very important thing — we don’t need as much as we were led to believe. We are a generation that has been tricked by lifelong advertising to always want more. …

The Indian Government has taken the lead against Chinese surveillance through popular mobile applications. On June 29, 2020 the Government of India’s Press Information Bureau posted an official press release disallowing the usage of certain applications in both mobile and non-mobile Internet enabled devices. “The compilation of the data, its…