Is This It? 4 Key Reasons for Mid-Life Languishing
... and how we can overcome it Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY It is a truth universally acknowledged that happiness is a...
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Anna K. Schaffner
I write blogs, journalism, fiction, non-fiction and academic texts. My work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Psychology Today, Positive Psychology, Aeon, Psyche, Die Sueddeutsche, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in other places.
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- Jan 13
- 5 min
Why Quiet Quitting is a Dangerous Concept
Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY "Quiet quitting" has generated a flurry of headlines in 2022. Results of a 2022 Gallup survey...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 5 min
Is How You are Working Working for You?
Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Many of my coaching clientscome to me because they believe there is something wrong with how...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 6 min
Whatever happened to 'Workaholism'?
Why the term has disappeared and why that should concern us Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Recently I came across a...
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- May 25, 2022
- 7 min
Why Manifesting is Bad for Us
... and what it can tell us about our present cultural moment Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today “Manifesting” is one of the...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 6 min
Do you feel heavy, exhausted, depleted and weighed down?
Why our Mind-Metaphors Matter Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I have always been fascinated by the metaphors we use to...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 6 min
5 Reasons Why Perfectionism Can Make Us Ill
How Our Inner Perfectionist Can Push Us Into Exhaustion and Burnout Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I see the best minds of...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 5 min
What's So Great About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
7 Reasons why I love ACT Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Most of you will already have heard of Acceptance and Commitment...
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Burnout Paradox: Burnout and the Circle of Control
Notes on Exhaustion. Blog #1 Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY There is a huge paradox at the heart of burnout debates: Coaches...
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- Feb 1, 2021
- 5 min
Defusing the Culture War
What we can learn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy In the not-too-distant past, our news media were limited to a few television...
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- Sep 16, 2020
- 6 min
Is Our "Me-First" Culture Waning?
There are signs that the tide is finally beginning to turn against self-centred individualism. In our age of pandemics, populism, and ...
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- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
The Art of Humility
But humility does not mean meekness, and neither does it equate to weakness. In fact, this ancient virtue has nothing to do with adopting a
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- Apr 24, 2020
- 4 min
Crisis Management, Ancient-Style
The belief that we can control our feelings by controlling our thoughts is both the most simple and also the most radical premise on which m
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- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
The Power of Altruism
In times like these, it is of the essence to keep our minds and bodies strong. Not to give in to dejection and fear. To find activities that
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