🎬 Videos(11)
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RfRx 9/15/21 - Remembering Sweetness: Happiness in a Time of Plague w/ Andy Thomson, M.D.
Recovering from Religion
Trigger warning: Images of Self Harm are in the presentation Regular RfRx guest Dr. Andy Thomson, M.D. will summarize key findings from the psychological science research into happiness and well-being, and how it all connects to our evolutionary history. Additionally, the presentation will discuss a useful model known as the "AAA battery": Agency, Attachment, and Altruism.
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RfRx - Rebuilding When Your Foundation Crumbles with Katherine Roberts
Recovering from Religion
Because most fundamentalist religions are such high demand belief-systems, when it's suddenly gone, it can be a very disorienting, confusing and painful time in someone's life. One can find themselves, as Katherine Roberts did, with a shaken worldview and lost without the underpinnings of their old faith. Gleaning from her own journey out of faith, and looking back at the challenges that she faced, Katherine will offer practical advice to those finding themselves sitting amongst the ruins of their former faith, wondering where to start to rebuild in a healthy way.
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RfRx 8/14/21 - Love's Labour's Lost: An Evolutionary View of Depression w/ Dr. Andy Thomson M.D.
Recovering from Religion
In On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin wrote, "Pain or suffering of any kind, if long continued, causes depression and lessens the power of action; yet is well adapted to make a creature guard itself against any great or sudden evil." One hundred and sixty years later we have solid theories supported by evidence that depression's core structure arises from an adaptation, not a broken or dysfunctional brain.
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Why to Choose Hope, Not Optimism
Danielle LaSusa
Hope goes beyond the evidence to imagine a new world.
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Choosing Hope: Practical Philosophy Class
Danielle LaSusa
This class will teach you how and why to choose hope, even when the world is terrible.
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Nicole Cardoza's Guided Meditation For Anxiety
Yoga Journal
Try this short meditation, created by Yoga Foster and Reclamation Ventures founder Nicole Cardoza, the next time you feel yourself getting overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious.
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Watch Anna Deavere Smith perform Cornel West's powerful monologue on hope vs. optimism
Anna Deveare Smith
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📄 Articles(14)
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What is Religious OCD?
The Center for Treatment of Anxiety and Mood Disorders
People with religious OCD strongly believe in and fear punishment from a divine being or deity.
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How to Help Someone with Depression
Crystal Raypole
Watching a friend live with depression can be painful, but there are ways to help. Learn what to do, avoid, and how to recognize the signs of suicidal thoughts.
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Guide to Managing Self-Harm Among College Students
EduBirdie
What is self-harm and what consequences it may bring? Discover the warning signs of NSSI and the most common ways of self-mutilation. Learn more about the actions that should be taken by college staff, family members, and students.
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Fear of the Rapture Consumed Everyone I Knew as an Evangelical Kid. It Took Me Years to See Exactly Why.
Joshua Rivera
It's hard to overstate how large the rapture looms for many evangelicals in America,
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The Science of Well-Being Course
Laurie Santos - Yale
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits.
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Spending money on others promotes happiness
Elizabeth W Dunn, Lara B Aknin, Michael I Norton
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Toward a Neurology of Loneliness
Stephanie Cacioppo, John P. Capitanio, and John T. Cacioppo
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Potential impact of physical distancing on physical and mental health: a rapid narrative umbrella review of metaanalyses on the link between social connection and health
Nexhmedin Morina, Ahlke Kip, Thole Hilko Hoppen, Stefan Priebe, Thomas Meyer
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How Involuntary Hospitalization for Depression Works
Verywell Mind
Learn about what to do when making the difficult decision to commit someone who is depressed and you think needs to be involuntarily hospitalized.
📚 Books(7)
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being
Martin E.P. Seligman
"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years--and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is.
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn't kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.
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The Myths of Happiness
Sonja Lyubomirsky
In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (singlehood, divorce, financial ruin, illness) to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions.
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin de Becker
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger--before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love, including how to act when approached by a stranger, when you should fear someone close to you, what to do if you are being stalked, how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls, the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person, and more. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss. It might just save your life.
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The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
Daniel Gardner
In this fascinating, lucid, and thoroughly entertaining examination of how humans process risk, journalist Dan Gardner had the exclusive cooperation of Paul Slovic, the world renowned risk-science pioneer, as he reveals how our hunter gatherer brains struggle to make sense of a world utterly unlike the one that made them. Filled with illuminating real world examples, interviews with experts, and fast-paced, lean storytelling, The Science of Fear shows why it is truer than ever that the worst thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives--and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.
🏢 Organizations(1)
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wellness for people living with mood disorders
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
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