by Lesley Lyle | October, 2017 | Brain chemicals
I just got back from Mexico, where I presented the Spanish translation of my book Habits of a Happy Brain. Here I am on the Mexican equivalent of The Today Show, after furiously working on my Spanish for a few weeks. A few reporters showed up with dog-eared copies of...
by Lesley Lyle | October, 2017 | Education, Nicola Morgan
Ancient wisdom has suggested that books can be therapeutic from Plato’s time through the enlightenment to modern day Bibliotherapy courses. Literary fiction has been a source of fascination for me since the eighties when my teacher announced that the study of...
by Lesley Lyle | September, 2017 | Mental Health
Think about it for a minute… Think about it for a minute. When we are physically ill our whole bodies tell us to stop. To rest, to sleep to recuperate to allow our bodies time to recover from the illness, whatever that may be. Psychologists often call this sickness...
by Lesley Lyle | September, 2017 | Mental Health, Steve Emery
The Question What if money was spent on mental health and not mental illness? I pondered this question whilst studying happiness and work done by Carol Ryff and Corey Keyes. The work centres around how we live our lives and touches on the phrase of Psychological...
by Lesley Lyle | September, 2017 | self-development
In my last blog I wrote about addiction versus habit. Habits can be positive or negative. This article explores what makes a bad habit form and how we can overcome them. Wikipedia describes a bad habit as: ‘a negative behaviour pattern. Common examples include...
