Tips for studying online

You’ve just enrolled in your first online university class. What do you need to know? Do? Understand? What are the best strategies for online learning? In this blog post, I’ll share my top tips for studying online. Make a study plan A study plan is crucial to online learning. Every semester, I make a plan, …

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The paradox of being an INFJ

INFJs are unusual. Not only are they the rarest personality type (making up 1-2% of the world’s population) but the elements of their personality are contradictory. I’m an INFJ and sometimes I feel like I’m two different people. Here’s why: I’m an extroverted introvert Here’s the dialogue of my life: “I love everyone! I want …

It’s time to stop stigmatising modern medicine

Society can’t seem to get comfortable with modern medicine. There are opinions, day in and day out, telling us not to take too many pills; that natural medicine is the “right” way to go; that antidepressants don’t really work; and that most often, the side effects of drugs aren’t worth it. Recently, I found a …

How to build resilience

We are not born with more or less resilience than anyone else. Resilience is an acquired skill. Like any skill, it can be learnt and maintained as long as you remember to flex your resilient muscle. Here are my top tips to building resilience. Allow yourself to feel sadness/anger/pain/grief/confusion Yep. You read that right. Allow …

Types of resilience

We all think about something different when we hear the word ‘resilience.’ If you’re an entrepreneur, you might think about your company’s resilience in the face of uncertain economic environments. If you’re an athlete, you might think of the endurance you put your body through, and sometimes you might think of the people who have …

Let’s embrace our ‘don’t know’ minds

Buddhism has great ideologies. One of my personal favourites is the concept of ‘don’t know’ mind. Don’t know mind can be confusing at first. Why shouldn’t we know? Should we be more ignorant? Definitely not. Don’t know mind is something else entirely. It’s what Suzuki Roshi spoke of when he said “in the beginner’s mind …

My 5 ‘non-negotiables’ of mental health

My sister and I are self-confessed workaholics. We got our first jobs fresh out of primary school (mine was as a wedding table decorator – how cool’s that?) and we both managed fast-food teams during our teenage years. Even though we’re both in our early twenties, we’ve been working for a decade, in many jobs, …