Busy times in the Dr L household, but here's a link to an interview I did recently with Dr Jessica Higgins on her Empowered relationship podcast. In it I talk all about limerence, a bit about my …
Rumination and intrusive thoughts
Here's an interesting video about rumination and intrusive thoughts: https://youtu.be/NAT9pFN2GqU It's good overall, but there were a couple of stand-out points for me. 1. Rumination and …
Design your (purposeful) life
I'd planned a case study for this week's blog, but it's fallen through, so instead here's a video on how to design your life. If you read around the self-development literature for a while, you …
The neuroscience of self-discipline
In the last post, I argued that training yourself to become more disciplined was a route to success in resisting the temptation of limerence. In the spirit of scientific debate, here's a …
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How to disclose if you want no for an answer
This still holds up as the best version of Pride and Prejudice ever filmed. Darcy's first proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF3ueHjUc3k In vain I have struggled; it will not do. My …
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“The crush you can’t quit”
Life comes at you fast, sometimes. I've had a crazy busy week in the day job, and that happened to coincide with a sudden increase in traffic to the blog. The reason for this was an article …