Our Minds & Our Selves

Procrastination vs. Energy Budgeting: What’s the Difference?

September 12, 2022 / , , / 35 Comments

Energy budgeting and procrastination both involve putting tasks off until later, but one is healthy and the other isn’t. So what’s the difference? That’s what we’ll explore in this post. What is procrastination? I like Wikipedia‘s definition of procrastination – it is “the action of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that […]

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Impostor Syndrome, Masking, Inadequacy, & Social Belonging

September 6, 2022 / / 34 Comments

Impostor syndrome, masking, social belonging, and inadequacy – that’s a lot of things crammed into one title! The comments on a post I did a while back (Do You Experience Impostor Syndrome?) got me wondering where the lines are between impostor syndrome and some of the things that it overlaps with. I don’t have answers,

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Toxic Positivity: What It Is and Why It’s Not Helpful

July 26, 2022 / , , / 74 Comments

Positivity can be a good thing, but toxic positivity not so much. So, what’s the difference? I’d say that positivity is about finding the good that exists despite the bad, while toxic positivity is pretending that the bad can’t/doesn’t exist or trying not to allow it to exist. The element of invalidation is another thing

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