Social Skills refer to those skills that help engage and communicate with another person orally and non-verbally through body language, gestures, and outward appearance. These skills play an essential role in today’s world. They are used in networking, establishing valuable relationships, making friends in personal life, and sharing cordial relationships with colleagues at work. If …
Fight or flight response was one of the main survival instinct for the caveman and has helped a lot along the path of evolution but have you ever wondered is it still helpful? Sometimes, yes, it helps you to jump out of the way of a car in time when it appears out of nowhere. But have you ever had a strong emotional reaction to a situation which caused embarrassment later? Perhaps you have overreacted to a friendly critique of a colleague, maybe you didn’t show up for an exam or interview you thought you have not prepared enough for, or you might have panicked and fled out of a stressful situation.
Toxic Masculinity is the rigid gender role definition of manliness that can jeopardize the well-being of men and society at large. Being the mother of a son who has yet to learn about his roles in this world, this topic is really important for me to address. Of course, I can only state examples or …
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Body Image is the way a person perceives his/her body and the opinion he/she has of his/her own physical appearance. This is an important concept that is related to self-esteem and mental health. Body image starts developing in childhood and grows with us. If a child feels unappreciated or criticized for his physical appearance it …
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Do you know someone who is unhappy with their physical appearance? Probably yes. With excessively unrealistic beauty standards of our society, constantly backed and reinforced by media and the fashion industry, it is obviously reflecting into body image problems. It is more common among women, of course, because young girls are raised to be more …
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We are unfortunately living in a society that is relying more and more on physical appearance for validation and manipulating our body image. To make matters worse the media is constantly raising the bar for the standards of physical beauty. It’s getting hard for both men and women to keep up with ridiculous societal standards …
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I have just read about breast ironing and am more furious than shocked. Although I was oblivious to any such practices, I am not shocked as I am from a culture where mothers and elderly ladies of the family go to crazy lengths to shape a baby’s head or nose or lengthen their neck. I …
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