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(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?

The question of "pride" in relation to the employee/employer relationship comes up a lot in internal surveys, in my experience. This paper seems to seek to take a fairly technical approach to understanding the importance and impact.

It does raise the more general question though: what does it really mean to be proud of your employer?

·researchgate.net·
(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
How To Forgive Someone : Life Kit : NPR
How To Forgive Someone : Life Kit : NPR
An interesting essay on the importance of forgiveness, and how it can be about personal recovery rather than letting someone off the hook for abuse. It’s a tough lesson to learn, but ultimately useful, I’ve found.
·choice.npr.org·
How To Forgive Someone : Life Kit : NPR
The Art of Not Thinking
The Art of Not Thinking

Not my normal kind of read as I don't generally go in for this sort of blog; but this particular post does do a good job of describing how I tend to approach simple but important things that need doing on a daily or weekly basis.

Doing things is easy, starting doing them can be hard -- especially really useful things like meal prep, general housework, exercise, etc.

·tiffanymatthe.com·
The Art of Not Thinking
How to Treat Depression With Low-Intensity Virtual Reality Interventions: Perspectives on Translating Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Into the Virtual Reality Modality and How to Make Anti-Depressive Use of Virtual Reality–Unique Experiences
How to Treat Depression With Low-Intensity Virtual Reality Interventions: Perspectives on Translating Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Into the Virtual Reality Modality and How to Make Anti-Depressive Use of Virtual Reality–Unique Experiences
Paper about the use of VR to help treat depression.
·ncbi.nlm.nih.gov·
How to Treat Depression With Low-Intensity Virtual Reality Interventions: Perspectives on Translating Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Into the Virtual Reality Modality and How to Make Anti-Depressive Use of Virtual Reality–Unique Experiences
Advice to Regretful pwBPD
Advice to Regretful pwBPD
Quote: "The number-one complaint among loved ones isn’t manipulation, splitting, mood swings, rage, jealousy, devaluation, triangulation, the victim Olympics, or really any of the well-known drama/trauma/abuse. It’s the pervasive lack of accountability."
·reddit.com·
Advice to Regretful pwBPD
Excellent thread about experiences with a person with BPD
Excellent thread about experiences with a person with BPD

So many of the comments in this thread really hit home, and put into words my experiences, in ways I'd never be able to. I really wish I had the ability to explain like this.

What's really helpful here is it's healing to see people talk about exactly the things I went through. It's sort of reassuring to know you're not alone, you didn't imagine it, that it really did happen.

·reddit.com·
Excellent thread about experiences with a person with BPD
How mindfulness can make you a darker person
How mindfulness can make you a darker person

Mindfulness can be a useful tool, and is rightly suggested as a tool in the toolbox of good mental health. But like all tools it can have its problems if not used correctly.

To quote form the start of the article:

"Mindfulness is thought to have multiple benefits – but it can also make you less likely to feel guilty about wrongdoing and derail your moral compass."

·bbc.com·
How mindfulness can make you a darker person
Open plan offices are terrible for you
Open plan offices are terrible for you
The evidence is overwhelming: open plan offices are absolutely terrible. For everyone. They make employees stressed, decrease team communication, and lower productivity. While there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence on this, recent studies have shown the real impact...
·twitter.com·
Open plan offices are terrible for you