Unfortunately, many problems that begin to occur during adulthood – like depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and obesity – are often the direct result of childhood trauma that has gone untreated.

It’s tricky to identify negative thinking patterns because our thoughts feel so immediate and true. We have a habit of accepting them uncritically, without questioning.

The reality is that the family you were born into and that raised you still lingers in your adult brain, influencing feelings, reactions, and choices.

A potential reason why being ignored is often more feared than arguments is that there is bilateral communication during an argument. Therefore, the content of the interaction, and hence the

Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape the negative emotions associated with a task (e.g., frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As colleagues have explained so well before,