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Real Transformation Starts With Understanding Your Brain

Your brain is either growing or dying. There’s no neutral ground. That’s the core principle behind Personal Articles, neuroscience-backed guidance for people who want genuine transformation, not surface-level motivation.

Most personal development content treats change like willpower. Get inspired. Set goals. Push harder. But that’s not how your brain actually works. Change happens when you understand the neural mechanisms driving your behavior, when you grasp why you repeat patterns, why motivation fades, and why some habits stick while others collapse within days.

Woman with Borderline Personality Disorder experiencing splitting symptoms
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The Role of Splitting in Borderline Personality Disorder: Exploring its Effects and Treatment Options

Venture into the intricate world of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and its profound symptom, splitting. This comprehensive article explores the complexities of BPD, the impact of splitting on individuals and their relationships, and the promising treatment options available. Discover how Neuroscience Brain-Based Life Coaching is revolutionizing the approach to managing

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Dopamine & Motivation

What is Motivation Exactly?

Motivation is influenced by satisfying needs necessary for sustaining life or well-being and growth. Physiological needs for food, water, and sex (yes, sex) serve the organism to maintain life and provide satisfaction.

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What Makes People Indecisive?

Do you ever find yourself needlessly obsessing over an important decision or avoiding making that decision altogether by any means? You have a few (often equally attractive) options, but you obsess over only a handful?

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Give Yourself Credit: The Essential Habit Behind Self-Esteem

Give yourself credit. Are you appreciating your small wins? Here’s why it’s important to find those daily “+1’s” to build confidence and self-esteem. We often don’t give ourselves enough credit in life – and this can ultimately lead to low self-esteem and confidence. Too much of self-reflection is often focused

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Making Decisions with Self-Confidence

How to achieve what you set out to achieve. In addition to being realistic and action oriented, decisive people tend to have self-confidence. High self-esteem gives them a positive view of themselves for making decisions with Self-Confidence and their sense of self-efficacy gives them a belief that they can achieve

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Stopping the What If’s

Everyone has moments where they worry about the what if’s. They are actually a necessary part of life and assist in the decision making process or motivating us to make better choices; however, sometimes they become overwhelming and can be indicative of a larger problem. They are common symptoms of

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What is Adaptability and Its Details Explained

At the heart of resilience is your ability to adapt. This refers to making adjustments – physical, emotional, and mental – based on new circumstances and information. Adjustments can be in your behavior, perception, beliefs, or judgments. The more effective you are in adjusting and changing the Adaptability, the healthier and

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Narcissist mind
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Breaking Free From A Narcissist Mind

Breaking up hurts. Rejection on any level sucks, no matter how you slice it……. Most people recognize that relationships end for all sorts of reasons. Some are nasty, some are amicable, and some are mutual. But they generally follow the same pattern – relationship ends, one or both parties grieve,

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trajectory of self-improvement
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Healing to Upgrading: The Powerful Trajectory of Self-Improvement

The same tools you use to heal yourself can be used to upgrade yourself. Here’s why the learning trajectory of self-improvement matters in whatever stage of life you’re in. When people first become interested in self-improvement, it’s usually because they want to “fix” something that they perceive as broken. Often

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Feeling Down
Dopamine & Motivation

How to Get Something Done When You’re Feeling Down

When people are depressed their energy, activity, and mood levels decrease in a spiral. The lower energy you feel, the less you do, the worse you feel emotionally, and the cycle continues. Being productive can help interrupt that negative spiral and turn it around. In this blog, I offer five

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CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
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CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

Processing my own childhood trauma was the key to internal peace and genuine self-love. As a child, I suffered quite sever bullying throughout my school years that had a significant impact on my adult life.

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Understanding Attachment Style
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Understanding Attachment Styles

Attachment refers to the particular way in which you relate to other people. Your style of
attachment was formed at the very beginning of your life, during your first two years.
Once established, it is a style that stays with you and plays out today in how

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