Aflo Images/Getty One of the biggest lessons Joon "J.S." Park has learned about living… has come from those who are dying. He can still remember a patient he knew who was experiencing chronic pain and went into cardiac arrest. Against her written wishes, her family demanded resuscitation, and when she woke up, the patient was...
South_agency/Getty Images People are innately curious, so we tend to gravitate toward any sort of test or label that might help us better understand ourselves. It’s why we read our horoscopes (even if we don’t entirely believe in astrology). Or why we flood the comment sections of TikTok videos about behavioral traits tied to things...
Instagram / @mrs._colleen_b “I can’t.” “It’s too hard.” “I just don’t know how.” If these are phrases are among your child’s most frequently used, they might be experiencing learned helplessness. Learned helplessness occurs when someone adopts the belief that they’ll always be unsuccessful in solving a problem. Fortunately, anything learned can be unlearned, and Colleen...
TikTok “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” We’ve all heard it at some point, many of us probably from our parents. But that’s not to say our parents were always practicing what they preached. And hey, nobody’s perfect, but it’s also important to be mindful about what messages...