The dictatorship of happiness: how to overcome it and find your own way

The dictatorship of happiness: how to overcome it and find your own way

If you’re on social media, you might have already noticed what a great platform it offers to showcase just how very happy you are to the whole world. In reality, it’s not as much about being truly happy as it is about showing everyone that you’re happy through photos, videos, text posts, gifs, links, etc. […]

3 tips for radical change

3 tips for radical change

Making radical changes in our lives is a coping strategy that allows us to deal with deep dissatisfaction or a desire to improve. We’ve talked about how undertaking small or large projects after the holidays is a healthy way of working towards our goals and ideals (what we call living an “authentic life” in psychological terms). However, sometimes what […]

Maturing: a journey back from Neverland

Maturing: a journey back from Neverland

In our previous post we visited Netherland, the island of our childhood, and we talked about the process of maturing in the wake of two so-called syndromes that, without a doubt, complement each other: the Peter Pan syndrome and the Wendy syndrome. The first is basically associated with a pattern of immaturity: someone who, for […]