Real Life
By Lisa Leffel, MS.Ed, TTS, RN
Real LifeApr 27, 2023
Self-Harming Behavior
Describes what self-harm is and who experience this type of behavior. Explains why individuals choose to harm themselves. Overviews the types of self-harming behavior and offers strategies to manage self-harm urges.
Fighting Online
Offers strategies that help avoid getting involved in an online argument.
Tackling Loneliness
Discusses the loneliness epidemic. Offers ways to tackle loneliness.
Alone Time
Discusses benefits, challenges, and personality and alone time. Describes the difference between aloneness versus loneliness. Lists signs you need alone time and how to get it. Focuses on how to get others to respect your alone time and overcoming fear of alone time.
Disagreements
Discusses how to have productive disagreements before they turn into all out arguments and brawls.
Acting on Red Flags
Discusses what red flags are (and what they are not), why you need to pay attention to red flags, and how to deal with red flags in a thoughtful way.
Aging
Discusses symptoms, causes and treatment of age-related conditions. Focuses on cognitive conditions.
Malingering
Overviews what Malingering is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Overviews what Paranoid Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment. Details how to deal with someone who may have Paranoid Personality Disorder.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Overviews what Schizoid Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Overviews what Histrionic Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Overviews what Dependent Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
Overviews what Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Explains the difference between OCPD and OCD. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Overviews what Avoidant Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Overviews what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Overviews what Borderline Personality Disorder is and discusses key traits. Describes symptoms, causes and treatment.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Defines what Antisocial Disorder Personality Disorder is and explains symptoms, causes and treatments.
Signs You Might Be A Drama Queen and Things A Drama Queen Does To Control Others' Lives
Overviews the five signs you might be a drama queen. Details things a drama queen does to control your like.
Catastrophising
Defines catastrophising. Describes how anxiety and catastrophising often go hand-in-hand. Discusses where you may find yourself fearing the future or plagued by challenging thoughts about the likelihood of things going wrong. Points out the difference between possibility and certainty. Offers tips to help you stop catastrophic thinking and challenge black-and-white thinking. Describes how you can look at things more objectively and calmly.
Brain Zaps
Describes what causes brain zaps. Reveals the signs of brain zaps and how to minimize the chances of brain zaps.
Help for the Socially Awkward
Explains why some people may be socially awkward. Describes how you can determine if you are socially awkward. Offers tips on how to become more socially successful.
How to Tell if You're an Overtalker
Offers self-management tips to overtalkers. Defines what type of personality most overtalkers have and the causes of overtalking. Explains categories of overtalking. Discusses treatment options.
Doomscrolling
Explains what is Doomscrolling and why we do it—and how to stop.
Perfectly Imperfect
Explains the perfectionism phenomenon and offers steps to help with your desire to be perfect.
Shame
Describes that like every other feeling that drags us down, shame can at times feel insurmountable. But as with every other feeling, we can control it. Details how to rise above shame.
Finding Your Purpose
Describes how “finding your purpose” is more than just a cliché or a dream that will never be fulfilled. Provides tips on how to live a purposeful life. Explains that "finding your purpose" is actually a tool for a better, happier, healthier life that too few people attempt to use.
Self-Acceptance and Acceptance of External Events
Discusses the role of acceptance in good mental health, the difference between self-acceptance and acceptance of external events (and why both are important), how to get better at accepting yourself for who you are, and how to develop greater acceptance of external circumstances.
Habits that Lead to Unhappiness
Describes bad habits that are shared by many unhappy people, along with a solution for breaking each of them.
Let It Go!
Describes how letting go of the past and living in the present plays an enormous role in good mental health.
Perfectionism
Discusses the mental and physical harm perfectionism can have on a person. Offers tips on how to overcome perfectionism.
Why Boredom is Good for You
Explains that there's a point to boredom, and it can offer us a chance to shape our own lives.
Why Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Be Happy
Details why your brain isn't wired to make you happy. Explains how you can change the way you think, behave, and ultimately feel despite your brain's primitive purpose. Describes the difference between living a meaningful life versus a happy life.
Trust
Details signs of having trust issues and possible origins. Offers tips on how to overcome trust issues.
Decisions You Make and Actions You Take
Explains how you can assess what habits you should keep and those you should change or discard to achieve positive mental and physical health.
Dealing with Awkward Conversations
Describes the TACT method of dealing with awkward conversations. Provides examples of specific awkward conversations and offers responses if you find yourself in such conversations. Provides tips on dealing with awkward topics that may come up in conversations.
Dealing with Difficult Situations
Offers tips on how to deal with difficult situations.
Dealing with Guilt
Panic Attacks
How Do You See Yourself?
Explains how you think about yourself plays a huge role in your overall well-being. Defines what self-esteem is, how it affects your wellbeing, and how to improve your self-esteem for better mental health.
Pathological and Compulsive Liars
Dealing With People Who Talk Too Much
Explains how to make a monologue a dialogue. Offers steps how to deal with people who are too talkative and how to set boundaries with such a person.
How to Silence Your Haters
Offers tips how to use hate to motivate and put a kibash to haters' intentions to bring you down.
Forgive or Forget?
Details what forgiveness is and what it is not.
Manipulation
Describes manipulation. Explains why people manipulate others. Provides examples of manipulation. Discusses why it is important to be aware of and address manipulative behaviors for the sake of your mental health and well being. States how to ensure you are not deliberately or accidentally manipulating someone.
Gossiping
Talks about why most gossip focuses on negative information and is emotionally rewarding.
Control Hungry?
Defines what control is and why we crave it, the impact that effectively managing your need for control can have on your overall wellbeing, and how to manage the need for control on a day-to-day basis in order to improve your mental health.
The Purpose of Food At Social Events and Holidays
Details the role of food and beverage in events and holidays. Explains why food is so important at social events. Describes what a social event checklist is. Discusses how to write a time plan and focus on food safety.
Who Are You?
Discusses finding and maintaining your sense of identity and living authentically.
Do You Have Empty Nest Syndrome?
Discusses the symptoms, causes and treatment for Empty Nest Syndrome.
Been Ghosted?
Explains why people ghost. Discusses why being ghosted hurts. Offers tips on how to cope when you are ghosted.