Your stress mindset is the extent to which you believe that the effects of stress are either beneficial or harmful. Unlike ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Maybe you stock up on ice cream after a difficult day at work or reach for chocolate after a disagreement with your partner.

Stress. It’s on everybody’s mind, and everybody wants less of it. Despite being one of the hot topics in self-care, what you’ve been taught is minimally helpful and, in some cases, dead wrong. It’s ...

I have written quite a few posts for Psychology Today about stress and burnout (See my posts). I am frequently asked what is the single most important action I can take to address burnout and its ...

Psychologists have worked with clients for decades in an attempt to help overly anxious people learn to calm down. It was believed that to reduce stress, the body’s “relaxation response” had to kick ...