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[erika]

Since I'd like to close all my browser tabs before the beginning of the New Year:

20 Uses for Self-Compassion
How to Develop Self Compassion and Be Nicer to Yourself
[PDF]Compassionate Letter To Self Exercise
[PDF]The Complete Worksheets for the Confidence Gap

12 Things Happy People Do Differently


Core Values Assessment (not so sure about research behind this, was looking for information on assessing values in ACT)

Early Maladaptive Schemas: self-defeating, core themes or patterns that we keep repeating throughout our lives.

You Don't Have To Believe Your Thoughts (technique from How to Be Sick/Byron Katie, Inquiry)

Three Kinds of Insecurity and How to Handle Them (Three Kinds: Recent Failure, Social Anxiety, Perfectionism... go me with the hat trick)

The Short Instructional Manifesto for Relationship Anarchy

The Magic Words, Part 1 (2, 3)

People who Curse a Lot Have Better Vocabularies than Those Who Don't (supposedly, not so sure the methodology in this one is that stellar)


Best new twitter account:
https://twitter.com/kylor3n
Emo Kylo Ren

Youtube Links:
CNN Video on Dolphins Recognizing Themselves in Mirrors (does not appear to be captioned, wtf why)


Listicles:
26 Things Every Person Should Do For Themselves at Least Once A Year

10 Painfully Obvious Truths Everyone Forgets Too Soon

10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget

Comments

[striped]

Thanks for all the self-help links! :-D I am very much in the market for them...

[erika]

No problem. Keep an eye out, there should be a bunch more posts with this stuff coming in soon. Are you into Myers Briggs at all?

[striped]

I'm kinda interested in/skeptical of it! I think most of us fall somewhere in the middle and not in the extremes, but it's good fun. :-D Definitely keeping an eye out!