It's great to have a wide variety of effective choices in our stress management toolbox!
Psychological safety is a term particularly popularised by Amy Edmonson, Professor of Leadership & Management at Harvard Business School ... https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451. She defines it as a shared belief among members of a team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks. This includes speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes without fear of punishment or humiliation. She describes it as “felt permission for candor,” meaning individuals feel it is expected and valued to express themselves openly, even in hierarchical situations. Edmondson emphasizes that psychological safety is a group-level phenomenon shaped by team norms and dynamics. It enables learning, innovation, and collaboration by fostering an environment where individuals are willing to engage despite uncertainties or doubts.
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
Here, for example, are ... Psychedelics abstracts mostly published in the last few weeks.
McAlpine, R. G., G. Blackburne, et al. (2024). Development and psychometric validation of a novel scale for measuring ‘psychedelic preparedness’. Scientific Reports 14(1): 3280.
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write a brief approximately 1,200 word (5 minute read) newsletter/blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write a brief approximately 1,200 word (5 minute read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done Rainer Maria Rilke
When I get to heaven, God will not ask “Why were you not Moses?”. He will ask “Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi
The potential value of different forms of deliberate cold exposure is much in the news at the moment. For example Dr Michael Mosley has just completed a series of six short radio programmes on Cold Therapy. These include an Introduction and then they focus on Colder Room, Cold Recovery, Cold Exercise, Cold Water Swim and Sleep and the Cold. In a somewhat parallel process, earlier this year the Andrew Huberman podcast involved an interview with t
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in brief updates on recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty (today's is a little longer!) much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write a blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of months. I'll rotate through six topic areas ... Lifestyle, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Ageing, Psychedelics, and Meditation. I also plan to write occasional posts where I go into more detail about particular related subject areas.
Here, for example, are ten Lifestyle posts mostly published in the last few weeks. I found it intriguing that in addition to expected benefits for depression & anxiety (see Singh et al below), there is growing evidence that episodes of exercise improve brain functioning within minutes ... and for wide-ranging age groups (see Kekäläinen et al, Legrand et al, Monserrat et al and Polevoy et al below).