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1 day ago | psychologytoday.com | Nigel Barber Ph.D |Abigail Fagan

Our distant ancestors did not contend with added sugar in their food and did not eat junk food. Yet, this is not the only reason that they avoided being overweight. Their lifestyles used a lot of energy and this meant they avoided weight problems. Energy BalanceA lot of what is written about weight control focuses on the energy content of food and how much of that gets stored as body fat. This is not irrelevant, of course.

3 days ago | psychologytoday.com | Shireen Jeejeebhoy |Gary Drevitch

Source: Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy“When I was eleven.” With those words, I began my non-fiction book Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: How to Heal When You Are Alone. In an earlier post here, I wrote about visiting my grandfather in the cardiac care unit when I was 11 But another sight affected me, as well:“I stood in the sliding glass doorway of my grandfather’s cardiac care unit room. He lay white and still surrounded by humming machines and tubes in the hushed room.

3 days ago | psychologytoday.com | Michelle Quirk

Dreams have been part of human culture for as long as anyone has been keeping a record. Today, we view dreams from a combination of scientific, superstitious, evolutionary, cultural, and psychological perspectives. Dreams often represent attempts to solve conflicts and manage difficulties that arise in waking life. They are also a way of regulating our emotions. Dream symbols are often both universal and highly individualFor example, two women dreamed about a beautiful, majestic mountain.

3 days ago | psychologytoday.com | Lybi Ma

I was thrilled to hear best-selling author Tony Doerr speak about his writing life. He’s an American writer of historical fiction and more, books like Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See. He spoke during a writing course led by Elisabeth McKetta, author and teacher at Oxford and Harvard, who works out of Cornwall, England. One of McKetta’s mottos is “writers help writers,” and we saw that compassion and generosity in Doerr as well.

3 days ago | psychologytoday.com | Susan Newman Ph.D |Michelle Quirk

Source: Geralt / UnsplashFor several decades now, parents have been choosing to have fewer children. But in recent years, an issue that was previously low on the list of priorities has been contributing to this trend. “In times of heightened uncertainty, people are less likely to bring children into the world,” writes Joe Pinsker, who covers families and relationships for The Atlantic. But a new reason why extends beyond uncertainty about finances or the ever-increasing cost of raising a child.