Darya Sinusoid, Author at Shortform Books

How to Improve Your Marriage: The 4 Principles to Follow

Are cracks beginning to show in your marriage? What are some things you can do to prevent your marriage from deteriorating beyond repair? If you are seeing signs that your marriage is beginning to fail, put your efforts toward improving your marital friendship. According to relationship researcher John Gottman, improving your marital friendship is a matter of following four principles. Here’s how to improve your marriage, according to Gottman.

How Practicing Forgiveness Can Heal You From Suffering

Do you tend to harbor grudges and ruminate on past hurts? How can practicing forgiveness help you rid yourself of suffering and truly move on with your life? By practicing forgiveness, we can leave the negative experiences of our past behind and move forward with our lives. According to Louise Hay, the author of You Can Heal Your Life, we can even rely on forgiveness to heal from diseases. Here’s why it’s important to practice forgiveness and letting go.

How to Transcend a Poverty Mindset

How does your mindset influence your financial success? How can you shed your self-sabotaging beliefs about money and adopt a rich mindset? The beliefs you hold about money greatly affect your financial outcomes. If you have a poverty mindset, you’ll end up poor even if a large sum of money lands in your lap (e.g. through inheritance or winning a lottery). Here’s how you can transcend the beliefs and ideas about money that keep you stuck in poverty.

How Is Trust Earned? The 3 Proven Ways

Why is trust so important in relationships? How is trust earned? What does it take to destroy trust? Trust sets the tone of every interpersonal interaction. Trust is earned gradually but can be destroyed in an instant. Therefore, you should make maintaining trust your top priority in all your relationships, personal and professional. Learn how trust works, why it’s important, and how to build it with others and yourself.

How to Solve Marriage Problems: The 4 Steps to Resolution

What are the most common causes of disagreement in a marriage? How can you handle disagreement peacefully and effectively? According to relationship researcher John Gottman, you’ll encounter two categories of disagreement in your marriage: solvable problems and perpetual problems. As their name implies, solvable problems are relatively simple issues that you can fix. Here’s how to solve marriage problems in a calm and tactful manner.

How Do Childhood Experiences Affect Adulthood?

How do childhood experiences affect adulthood? Can childhood trauma cause permanent damage? According to Louise Hay, the author of You Can Heal Your Life, all of the problems in our lives are the result of negative experiences we had in childhood. Specifically, the negative beliefs we internalized as children create negative experiences in our adulthood. Keep reading to learn about the psychological effects of childhood.

John Rawls: The Distributive Justice Principle Explained

What does John Rawls mean by distributive justice? What’s the most just way to distribute social goods in a society? Distributive justice is the second principle of justice in John Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness. The principle of distributive justice states that everyone in society should have basic equal rights, liberties, and duties. Keep reading to learn about John Rawls’s distributive justice principle.

What Are Personal Boundaries? Therapist Explains

What are personal boundaries? Why is it important to set boundaries in your relationships? Your personal boundaries are your standards for how you’d like to be treated in your relationships. Setting healthy boundaries allows you to feel safe and comfortable in your relationships. Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab explains why setting personal boundaries is important and gives some examples of healthy and unhealthy boundaries.

What to Do When You Hate Your Job: 3 Potential Solutions

Are you happy at your job? What should you do when you hate your job, but you can’t quit? Your job satisfaction inevitably affects the rest of your life: If you like your job, you’ll have more energy to enjoy your personal life. If you hate your job, your dissatisfaction will lead to lower energy throughout the rest of the week. Unfortunately, not everyone has the luxury of doing work they love: Many people hate their jobs but feel powerless in changing the situation. Here’s what to do when you hate your job.

Making Bad Decisions: When Your Logic Turns Against You

Why do we make bad decisions? More importantly, how can we learn from our mistakes to make better decisions in the future? Our lives are full of big decisions, yet our minds are wired to make bad ones. Sometimes our decisions turn against us because of bad luck. Most of the time, however, our biases and illogical ways of thinking steer us toward making bad decisions. Here’s a look at the most common logical fallacies that affect our ability to make good decisions.