How to improve your communication skills in your relationship?

There is no perfect relationship. Every relationship goes through struggles and problems, but only strong relationships get through it. One of the keys for a healthy and strong relationship is good communication between the partners. Communication to a relationship is like oxygen to life. Without it, one day your relationship will come to the end. Because the communication is very important for your relationships, I want to share with you a few things that can help you to improve your relationship today.

Things you should know about therapy

   We all dream about something. We all hope that our dreams and our wishes will become true. I dream about this: one day to become a therapist. I am a graduated psychologist, but I would like to continue studying and advance in that field. This is a big challenge for me, but step by step I’m trying to reach my goal.

   Being a therapist is a profession full of challenges. The therapists always have something new to learn and need to constantly improve themselves, so they can help their patients. One of the most important things for this profession is something that we call good therapeutic relationship. If you want to have a good therapeutic relationship with your therapist, you need to know a few important things about therapy, which probably will break your popular myths about the therapy and therapists.

7 simple tips for improving your memory

Do you want to improve your memory?  

These 7 tips will help you do that:

1. Sleep well. Sleeping is helping us consolidate our memories. Experts say that sleeping improves the memory: “Sleep is key time for your brain to solidify the connections between neurons“. 

2. Smell, touch, taste, hear and see it. The more senses you involve when you need to encode memory, usually the more strong a memory it becomes. For example: if you need to remember someone’s name you met for the first time, it may help to look them in the eye when you repeat their name, and offer a handshake. By doing so, you’ve engaged 4 out of your 5 senses.

3. Repeat it. One reason people who want to memorize something repeat it over and over again is because repetition seems to work for most people. Repeat the information spaced out over a longer period of time.

What is OCD and do you have it?

   Do you remember all those times when you saw the picture frame on the wall out of place and you wanted to fix it? Or the time when you saw a shelf of books and they were all out of order and your eye twitched? 

Yes, I will be talking about OCD, but before I dive in to this mater, let me explain the term, even though I'm probably sure you already know what OCD stands for, it's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. OCD. These past few years this term has become widely spread and popular. Many people talk about it, there are many posts and lists on the internet with images stating that they will drive your OCD crazy. People even identify with it making it a part of their daily life.

   But what is OCD? What does it mean to have OCD and do all those people really have it?

   As I wrote before, it stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and in order to understand it, you need to understand these 3 terms. What do they mean and what their relation is? 

    When it comes down to the word obsession and its meaning, we often connect it to a person that really wants something very, very much. But in reality an obsession is any recurring thought or idea that keeps coming back in our minds, it is recurring. You keep thinking about it and you obsess about it. It can be a number, a color, an action it can be absolutely anything. For example, it can be the thought that you have contaminated your hands and you have to wash them vigorously because if you don't, something bad will happen.

22 daily & positive habits that happy people tend to follow.

You all want to be happy and surrounded by happy people, because they spread positive energy that makes you feel good in their presence. They are like a mirror- they reflect their happiness everywhere.

Happy people have many things in common. Barbara Sher says “ they know exactly what they want and they feel they are moving toward getting it.” That’s what makes their life feel good: when it has directions, when they are heading straight for what they love. It’s not always easy for them to stay happy, but they choose to be. They tent to follow a certain set of habits that create happiness in their lives.

This is a list with 22 daily & positive habits that happy people tent to follow:

How to be effective at studying?

    Learning is a lifelong process. The earlier you understand this, the easier it will be for you to face the challenges that come with the process of learning.
Many of the students struggle with studying. Maybe they don’t know how to improve their learning skills or maybe they don’t have an idea which studying strategies are most effective for them.
So if you are one of these students, please pay attention on these studying strategies.

7 steps how to deal with failure in exams.

   Everyone has experienced failure. Many famous and successful people at some point in their life have failed at something, but they kept doing what they started. They understood that experience comes from failure.

When you find yourself in a situation like exam or test failure, your mind and body experience something that makes you feel unmotivated and disappointed. The feelings of shame and guilt make you ask yourself questions: Am I good enough? Can I do this again? Am I stupid and not intelligent? Why this happened to me? The negative thoughts about yourself and the fear of repeated failure will prevent you to keep on. You need to overcome your failure. Start thinking how you can motivate yourself to move on and start the studying process all over again. Try to follow these 

few steps and see how they can 

help you change your thinking and behavior.

1st Step: Accept the fact that you failed. Stop feeling pity for yourself. Try to understand that this failure doesn’t measure your intelligence. Believe that this experience will help you be better the next time.

2nd Step: Clear your head from negative thoughts. Go on a walk. Go out with your friends. Share your story with your closest friends. Ask them to share with you some experience from their lives when they faced failure and how they find motivation to keep on.

Top 10 inspirational movie quotes!

Do you love watching movies? They really can be great sources of inspiration and motivation.

I want to share with you my favorite 15 inspirational movie quotes that maybe could change your mood or life view, today!

1. “Do, or do not. There is no “try” . - Yoda, Star Wars

2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”– Gandalf, Lord  of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

3. “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7-DAY- love yourself challenge!

    Sometimes is easier to love others, then yourself. Maybe you don’t have a problem to be good to others, but it’s hard for you to be good to yourself. Why? What makes you so self-critical? Try this seven day challenge and see how good it feels to appreciate yourself.

Day #1 – Inspire yourself. 

Read something more about how you can start to love yourself. Find and read some self-help books. Search for inspiring quotes on Google, Pinterest or our Facebook page - Psychologist Diary. :)

How to get more done every day?

     Sometimes I feel like I need more than 24 hours to finish all that things that wait on my TO DO list. I have to admit that many times I am not aware how I spend my time. I do some other things that are not so important in that moment. I get simply distracted by other things (thanks to Facebook and Pinterest). Sometimes it feels like I just can't finish anything, because I don’t know how or from where to start. So, until 30-hour days are invented, I decide to follow these easy and effective tips for getting more done in the 24 we have.

1.Get enough sleep. Don’t oversleep.

First you need to get enough sleep. If you don't get enough sleep, you will not have enough energy to do or finish everything. If you get enough sleep, you will be ready to face all the challenges of that day. BUT, don’t allow yourself to oversleep. Read more about the effects that oversleeping has on your health.