Success

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Like many Americans, you may have gotten some jolting news about a friend while scrolling through your social media feed this election season. Whether its a neighbor you share casual conversations with or a lifelong childhood friend, discovering that someones values don’t align with yours can quickly wreak havoc. The last few elections have no doubt been polarizing, but this one in particular has highlighted extremes.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Perhaps youre coming out of a wave of layoffs or a down year. Maybe youre preparing for a run of performance reviews where you have to deliver tough feedback. If you have tense conversations on the horizon, there are ways to prepare for it. In many cases, the anticipation of a high-conflict conversation creates more stress than the actual experience.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Israa Nasir is a psychotherapist and founder of WellGuide, a digital community for mental health awareness. Her work centers around helping people redefine their relationship with productivity and achievement to lead more mindful, purpose-driven lives. She has been featured in Vox , NBC, and Teen Vogue and invited to speak at Google, Meta, and Yale.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Despite growing up with a financial planner for a father, the idea of investing intimidated me well into my adulthood. From my point of view, investing seemed like a mysterious process. Not only was this magical money-making exercise conducted in an arcane language (what exactly is a NASDAQ, and why does it sound like something you treat with a special cream?

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