My theory about affirmations is that they work, just not for those people that need them. Therefore, they are effectively useless. To put it in slightly more complex psychological terms – they suck.

In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General identified racial trauma as the attributing factor to ethnic and racial disparities. Racial trauma is often accompanied by other elements of systemic racism such as socio-economic equality that further perpetuates the racial trauma.

There is no self-creation outside of relationships with others because others are critical mirrors of our creative psychological endeavors. Others show us the constructs we use but might not be conscious of, and they give us feedback that validates or invalidates them – other will, therefore, propel us toward change or validate us as we are now.

There are two ways for you to relate to your thoughts. You can be glued to them or you can be free from them. Take your pick.

When you’re having a hard time finding one replacement habit on your BFRB journey try creating a whole self-soothing kit!

Here are four different exercises that will help you understand some aspects of your BFRBs a bit better: what triggers you, what the urge is really like and how it relates to your thoughts and feelings.

Loss leaves a void. Grief is what surrounds that void of loss, and it consists of all the painful memories, images, various associations, thoughts, and feelings that we experience when we’re facing a loss.

A constructivist acts without full certainty but with curiosity and openness. We act based on our hypotheses, but we understand them as such and are willing to change our minds when circumstances call for it. Change is made easier when we don’t think of our psyche as set in stone or our identity as something real.

Our body is the ultimate medium for our unconscious mind. Its wide palette of symbols is a great tool to express anything that we can’t adequately put into words, sometimes because it’s very important not to, other times simply because language isn’t enough.

The great skeptic, Sextus Empiricus once wrote: “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.” The cure is here, will you take it?

Constructivism has a very particular relationship to emotions, different than any other type of psychology. Here’s how the constructivist understanding of our emotional lives can help us grow.

Drag is fun, but it can also be more: learn about all the different ways in which drag can transform your life. Here are just 5 psychological lessons we can all learn from drag queens.

Meditation can be a profoundly transformational experience. Learn some of the basic lessons that you can learn from sitting and meditating daily.

We are the story we tell ourselves, but we are also far more than that. Constructivism has a lot to teach us about the story and about the “far more”. See how you can use your narrative and not be used by it and how to open up the space to tell more stories about yourself and, consequently, create new possibilities.