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Latest Articles
How to Stop Worrying What Other People Think
Published 1 December, 2009 | Social Anxiety
I’ve met people who don’t care at all what others think. These may be lovely people in some ways, but they tend to do to social situations what, say, an unseasonable heat wave might do to the Winter Olympics. Still, in some ways you can envy them.
How to Stop Compulsive Lying
Published 23 November, 2009 | Bad Habits
Turns out Claire had lied since she was little. Recently she’d lied at work, telling everyone she was terminally ill with cancer. She’d got a huge amount of sympathy and attention, not to mention extended time off. Now she’d been found out and fired.
How to Stop Pulling Out Your Eyelashes
Published 19 November, 2009 | Bad Habits
I could understand Marilyn pulling out her own eyelashes, but even she sounded shocked with what she went on to tell me: “I’ve taken to obsessively tearing out my three-year-old daughter’s eyelashes and nibbling them! It’s sick, I know; but it’s become such a compulsion.”
How to Control Your Emotions
Published 17 November, 2009 | Confidence and Self Esteem
Once there lived an old man who kept all different kinds of animals. But his grandson was particularly intrigued by two tigers that lived together in one cage. The tigers had different temperaments; one was calm and self-controlled whilst the other was unpredictable, aggressive, violent, and vicious.
How to Keep a Cool Head
Published 16 November, 2009 | Stress Reduction
“They called me ‘Mr Cool’. I was the guy that diffused live bombs. I was totally calm, detached, and professional before, during, and after an operation. But all I can say is I’ve lost my cool.”
