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Empty nest syndrome: how to overcome it and how to approach the new stage

When children are young, parents hope that they will never grow up or that they will stay with them forever. But despite those desires, life is full of stages, cycles or phases, whatever you want to call it, and it is inevitable that the child grows, develops, relates and flies from the nest.Sooner or later […]

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Keys to maintain a conversation at the level of the interlocutor

Backwaters of oratory: we mean having a number of innocuous but interesting topics at hand that allow us to make general observations, although perhaps of little value, and so tangled that only an expert in the field can unmask our little “delusion”. If we take a conversation from “Quantum Physics”, the best known principle of it is

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How it affects (psychologically) wanting to pose continuously

37 hours per week. It is not the number of hours we spend at work, but what some studies refer to as the time we spend on social networks. And it doesn’t surprise us, because posturing requires your time and effort. We are already immersed in this culture of exposing our lives or what we would like our lives

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Coulrophobia: the causes of extreme fear of clowns

If there is something in the world capable of arousing very diverse emotions and sensations in people, it is clowns. While some associate them with fun and tender childhood moments, others cause real panic. This last group represents a very small percentage of the population, but in this small number of people the figure of the clown can

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I regret not having children: when you think you made a mistake

Lately, the voice of many women who say they regret having been mothers has been heard. This regret sparks bitter debates about motherhood and the difference between obligation and choice. Let’s be serious, being a mother is an option, not an obligation, and like any option you need a choice. So some women choose not to be mothers and are

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Lessons we learn when we ask for forgiveness

‘Errare humanum est’. This Latin phrase is attributed to Saint Augustine, although many pre-Christian authors were already pointing in the same direction. To be wrong is human, we all make mistakes and what do we do when we are wrong? Well, sometimes we rectify and other times we look the other way, but we should always ask for forgiveness. We

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Alexithymia: when we cannot express feelings and emotions

Vincent Van Gogh said: “Let us not forget that small emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” But… can you imagine what it would be like to live without knowing what you feel? How much frustration can this inability generate? We are talking about alexithymia, a symptom manifested by people who cannot

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