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SHERVAN K SHAHHIAN
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Positive Masculinity refers to healthy, constructive ways of expressing masculinity:
Positive masculinity refers to healthy, constructive ways of expressing masculinity, grounded in responsibility, emotional awareness, integrity, and respect for others. It’s not about rejecting masculinity, but refining it into something adaptive and prosocial. A useful contrast is with toxic masculinity, which describes rigid expectations like emotional suppression, dominance at all costs, or aggression as proof of strength. Positive masculinity keeps the strengths, drops th
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6 hours ago2 min read
Relational Trauma refers to psychological harm that happens within relationships, especially when trust, safety, or connection is repeatedly broken:
Relational trauma refers to psychological harm that happens within relationships, especially when trust, safety, or connection is repeatedly broken. It often develops in close, significant relationships like those with parents, caregivers, partners, or even close friends. Instead of a single traumatic event, relational trauma is usually chronic and interpersonal, such as: Emotional neglect (not being seen, heard, or valued) Inconsistent or unpredictable caregiving Abuse (emot
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7 hours ago1 min read
Creating Emotional Safety, how:
Creating emotional safety may not be about being “nice all the time”, it’s about building a relationship where people can be real without fear of punishment, rejection, or humiliation. It’s foundational in therapy, leadership, and intimate relationships, and heavily emphasized in approaches like Attachment Theory. Here’s what actually creates emotional safety in a practical, grounded way: 1. Predictability: “I know how you’ll respond” People feel safe when your reactions are
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Parapsychology: “Consciousness Traveling”:
“Consciousness traveling” may mean a few very different things depending on the lens you’re using, psychological, neuroscientific, or more esoteric. It’s worth separating them so you don’t end up mixing fundamentally different phenomena. Psychological / experiential (most grounded) Here, “traveling” doesn’t mean your consciousness literally leaves your body, it means your sense of self shifts location or perspective. Common examples: Mental time travel, vividly reliving the p
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7 hours ago2 min read
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as a body centered form of psychotherapy that integrates talk therapy with awareness of physical sensations, posture, movement, and nervous system responses:
Pat Ogden developed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as a body centered form of psychotherapy that integrates talk therapy with awareness of physical sensations, posture, movement, and nervous system responses. It is commonly used in trauma treatment, attachment repair, anxiety, dissociation, and emotional regulation. The core idea maybe traumatic or emotionally overwhelming experiences are not stored only as memories or thoughts, they are also stored in the body through muscle ten
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7 hours ago2 min read
COMPASSION PSYCHOLOGY
The Path of the Reduction of Suffering “Compassion Psychology, it’s a modern approach to Psychology, with its practical applications. This theory was conceived by: Shervan K. Shahhian in Los Angeles, California, USA and it is still developing as a theory of interpersonal development and Compassion. In Compassion Psychology, the effort is made by an individual to understand themselves better by self reflection, contemplation, meditation and helping others. Once a person unders
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9 hours ago1 min read
Parapsychology: Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs):
Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs) maybe episodes where a person feels as if their awareness or “self” has left their physical body and is observing from an external vantage point, often from above. Psychological & Neuroscience Perspective From a clinical and research standpoint, OBEs are usually understood as alterations in body perception and self-location rather than literal separation from the body. They’re linked to activity in the Temporoparietal Junction: ( CONSULT WITH A
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2 days ago2 min read
“Radical Honesty” is a communication approach built around telling the truth as directly and completely as possible:
“Radical honesty” is a communication approach built around telling the truth as directly and completely as possible, especially about your own thoughts, feelings, and intentions, instead of filtering, softening, or avoiding discomfort. At its core, it’s a reaction against the everyday habits most people rely on: White lies, politeness scripts, emotional suppression, and strategic silence. The idea is that those habits create stress, distance, and confusion over time. What it
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3 days ago2 min read
“Self-Trust” is basically your ability to rely on your own judgment, feelings, and decisions:
“Self-trust” is basically your ability to rely on your own judgment, feelings, and decisions, even when things are uncertain. It doesn’t mean you’re always right. It means: you believe you can figure things out you listen to your internal signals (gut, values, intuition) you don’t constantly outsource decisions to others and when you mess up, you trust yourself to recover, not collapse A lot of people think self-trust comes after confidence. It’s actually the opposite: it gro
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3 days ago1 min read
Infidelity Recovery is the process couples (or individuals) go through after a betrayal:
Infidelity recovery is the process couples (or individuals) go through after a betrayal, typically emotional or sexual, to rebuild trust, process the trauma, and decide whether and how to move forward. It’s not a quick “forgive and forget” situation. Psychologically, it resembles recovery from a relational trauma. What Actually Happens After Infidelity For the betrayed partner, the experience often mirrors symptoms of acute stress or even trauma: Intrusive thoughts (“mind mov
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3 days ago2 min read
A Gottman Therapist (CGT) refers to a clinician trained and certified in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy:
A Gottman Therapist (CGT) refers to a clinician trained and certified in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, an approach developed by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman. What “CGT” means CGT = Certified Gottman Therapist This is an advanced credential awarded by the Gottman Institute after extensive training, supervision, and evaluation. What the Gottman Method is It’s a research-based couples therapy approach grounded in decades of observational studies on relationships
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3 days ago1 min read
Mindfulness Training is a way of learning to pay attention to your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings in the present moment:
Mindfulness training is a way of learning to pay attention to your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings in the present moment, without immediately judging or reacting to them. It could be widely used for stress reduction, emotional balance, and improving focus. What mindfulness training involves At its core, it’s about practicing awareness. Instead of getting caught up in worries about the future or replaying the past, you train your mind to stay with what’s happening right n
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3 days ago2 min read
Cognitive Inhibition is the mental ability to suppress irrelevant thoughts, impulses, or distractions so you can focus on what matters:
In simpler terms, it’s your mind’s “filter” or “brake system.” What it does Stops you from saying or doing something impulsively Helps you ignore distractions (noise, irrelevant info) Prevents old or automatic responses when they’re not appropriate Examples Not blurting out an answer before thinking Ignoring your phone while studying Reading a paragraph without getting distracted by unrelated thoughts In the Stroop task: saying the color of the word (“red” printed in blue i
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3 days ago1 min read
Attentional Control is the ability to deliberately direct, sustain, and shift your focus:
Attentional control is the ability to deliberately direct, sustain, and shift your focus rather than letting it be pulled automatically by distractions, emotions, or intrusive thoughts. In psychology, it could be considered a core executive function that helps regulate thinking, behavior, and emotional responses. What it actually means At a practical level, attentional control involves three key capacities: Focusing: staying locked onto a task (reading without drifting off) S
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3 days ago1 min read
Social Phobia is when someone feels intense fear or anxiety in social situations:
Social Phobia is when someone feels intense fear or anxiety in social situations: Social phobia is when someone feels intense fear or anxiety in social situations, especially situations where they might be judged, embarrassed, or watched by others. Common signs Fear of talking to people, meeting new people, or being in groups Worry about being judged, criticized, or humiliated Avoiding social situations (school, work, events) Physical symptoms like sweating, shaking, fast hea
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3 days ago1 min read
Social Anxiety Disorder is a mental health condition:
Social Anxiety Disorder (often called social phobia) is a mental health condition characterized by an intense, persistent fear of being judged, embarrassed, or negatively evaluated in social or performance situations. It could be more than ordinary shyness. The anxiety is strong enough to interfere with daily functioning, relationships, work, school, or even routine activities like speaking up or making eye contact. Core Features People with Social Anxiety Disorder typically
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3 days ago1 min read
Salience Filtering is the mind’s way of deciding what matters right now and what can be ignored:
Salience filtering is the mind’s way of deciding what matters right now and what can be ignored. At any given moment, your senses are flooded with far more information than you can consciously process, sounds, sights, thoughts, bodily sensations. Salience filtering is the mechanism that selects a small subset of that input and flags it as important (salient) so it enters awareness and guides behavior. How it works (CONSULT WITH A NEUROLOGIST) It’s largely governed by the mind
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6 days ago2 min read
Attention Shaping is the deliberate process of training:
Attention shaping is the deliberate process of training, guiding, or conditioning where and how your attention moves, so that over time, it becomes more efficient, stable, and aligned with your goals. Think of it as sculpting the habits of your awareness, rather than just “trying to focus” in the moment. What it really means At a deeper level, attention shaping is about rewiring attentional patterns through repeated experience. Instead of reacting automatically to distraction
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7 days ago2 min read
Neural Pathways are the communication routes in your nervous system:
Neural pathways are the communication routes in your nervous system, basically the “wiring” that lets different parts of your mind and body talk to each other. What they are (CONSULT WITH A NEUROLOGIST) Neural pathways are chains of connected neurons (nerve cells) that transmit signals through electrical impulses and chemical messages. These pathways carry information like: Sensory input (what you see, hear, feel) Motor commands (movement) Thoughts, memories, and emotions How
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7 days ago2 min read
Suppressed Emotions usually don’t disappear,…
Suppressed emotions usually don’t disappear, they just get stored somewhere quieter and tend to show up in indirect ways. People often notice it as tension in the body, irritability, numbness, or sudden reactions that feel bigger than the situation. It can happen for a lot of reasons. Sometimes you learned early on that expressing certain feelings wasn’t safe or acceptable. Other times it’s more practical, pushing things down to function, get through work, or avoid conflict.
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7 days ago1 min read
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