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Articles by Dr. Linda Sapadin
Linda Sapadin, Ph.D is a psychologist and personal coach in private practice who specializes in helping people enrich their lives, enhance their relationships and overcome self-defeating patterns of behavior. For more information about her work, visit her website at PsychWisdom.
- Doing What DOESN'T Come Naturally
- When Self-Esteem Goes Awry
- Master of Your Domain? I Don't Think So!
- What Makes a Hater Hate?
- Worrying Too Much?
- Do You Have Too Much To Do?
- Why Can't She Let It Go???
- Are You Sitting There Doing Squat?
- Excellence or Perfection?
- Everything in Life is Relative!
- Thinking that Makes Things Worse!
- Disillusioned Dreamers
- Empathy: Too Much, Too Little or Just Right?
- The Road to Resilience
- From Worry to Wonder
- What Makes a Hater Hate
- Outing Family Secrets
- Developing Kids' Authentic Self-Esteem
- Nix the “Why” Questions
- How Healthy is Your Relationship?
- Listen, Don't Solve
- The Word "NO" May Be Your Best Friend
- One Size Does Not Fit All
- The Search for Meaning
- Much Confidence, Little Competence
- Know Thyself
- The Top Three Reasons New Year's Resolutions Fizzle
- More Courage, Less Fear
- How Your Mind Can Fool You
- Perfectionists: Listen Up!
- Rich Kids, Jaded Kids
- Talking to Yourself - A Sign of Sanity
- 7 First Class Responses to Second-Class Put-Downs
- Two Sides To Every Story
- Humiliation: No Way to Teach
- Enjoying the Little Things in Life
- Ho-Hum 'Good' Marriages
- Constructing a Conversation
- When Horrible Things Happen
- Feeling That You're Not Good Enough
- A New Twist to your New Year's Resolutions
- The Power of Kindness
- Creative Comebacks to Petty Put-Downs
- "My Belief" Bias
- Can Men and Women Be Friends?
- How to Assess Risk and Reduce Fear
- Composing a New Life
- How One Couple Began to Change
- Anger: Healthy and Unhealthy
- How to Give Birth to New Habits
- Can People Really Change?
- Motivating Yourself to Stay on Track
- To Live Well, Risk Well
- Blamers & Shamers
- Empathy: Deficit, Just Right or Too Much?
- Doing What DOESN'T Come Naturally
- Let Go of Being a Victim!
- Where Are You Headed?
- Learning from Your Regrets
- From “OMG!” to “It’s Okay”
- She Changed; He Didn't (Uh, Oh! Trouble Ahead)
- 1 + 2 + 3 = MAGIC!
- 5 Sure-Fire Ways to Feel Less Anxious
- Want Happy and Healthy Kids? Learn to Say "No!"
- How to Look in the Mirror and Be Compassionate!
- When You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
- The Importance of Effort
- Living in Your Own Bubble
- What's Your Listening IQ?
- Power and Politics in Families
- Stopping Fear from Stopping You
- The Art of Disagreement
- Tough for You to Say "No"?
- Giving Yourself What You Never Got
- When Life Throws You a Curve Ball
- Addicted to Distraction
- Look in the Mirror and Be Compassionate!
- Are You An Approval Addict?
- Upbeat or Downbeat?
- Five Sure-fire Ways to Feel Less Anxious
- Wise and Witty Wisdom from Ben Franklin
- Sure, You Know it All!
- How to Become a More Empowered You
- When Suicide Beckons!
- Listening in the Digital Age
- Doing What DOESN'T Come Naturally
- How Passive-Aggressive Behavior Wrecks Relationships
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Wisdom for Young and Old from 2018 Graduation Speeches
- Getting Naked, Emotionally
- Feeling Like a Fraud
- When Your Need for Control is Out of Control
- The Power of Authentic Listening
- Is it a NEED or a WANT?
- Are You an Introvert That Others View as an Extrovert?
- Romance or Reality?
- Can't Make that Decision?
- What's Happening to Men Today?
- Why Is It So Hard for (Most) Men to Admit Mistakes?
- Thinking is Hard Work
- Managing Your Mind During Self-Isolation
And from the Culivate Life! Archive:
- Sweating Bullets
- Out-of-Control Anger
- No: You're Not A Powerless Victim
- Male Survival Skills
- Developing Optimism
- Irrational Love
- Trouble Making Decisions?
- In Defense of Disobedience
- Rules to Follow, Rules to Ignore
- Dreamer Personalities
- Cleaning Your Clutter
- The Art of Asking
- Type A Worriers
- A Self-Confident Person
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