OLESYA LURASCHI.

Online meetings are here to stay. Many of us now have more online meetings than ever, and as companies extend virtual work initiatives online meetings are here to stay. Learn how to make online meetings more enjoyable for you and your colleagues. Watch for tips on how to connect more online, and how to build better team connections virtually. NEW Submit Your Questions Anonymously: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com//question ______________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olesyalurachi/

Your decision most likely seems like a crossroads, each fork leads down a different life path. Our belief in life paths is a little bit toxic when it comes to #decisionmaking. Of course we are paralyzed in the face of a destined outcome. The thing is we put way too much pressure onto our lives. We assume that life is a finite game. Finite games are things that have an objective outcome. Getting an A on a test is a finite game. And maybe spending over 12 years in a school system that encourages us to play endless finite games trains us to view life as an outcome that can be objectively measured. But life is an infinite game. It has limitless outcomes, and none can be objectively measured. You cannot get an A in life. And I would ask who would be giving this A? Learn how to make a hard decision, what constitutes a good decision, and how to be happy with your decision all in this video. Dave Evans and Life Design: https://designingyour.life/ Jam Study: https://hbr.org/2006/06/more-isnt-always-better NEW Submit Your Questions Anonymously: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com//question ______________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

All of us have been in this place. We are stuck. We face a problem or situation that seems impossible. Maybe we find ourselves in this place over and over again. Nothing seems to unstick us. This creates all kinds of #workstress and feelings of hopelessness. But there are things we can do to get unstuck and enjoy our work again. Key takeaways: - Your brain has a really good reason for doing things and it is usually to protect one of your #psychologicalneeds. - Helplessness is a conditioned response to an unpredictable environment, but we can train our minds to focus on a more helpful narrative. - There is a way to get unstuck. But the process that got you to your hopeless and stuck place is not the process that will get you out. ______________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

Most of life is spent avoiding negative emotion and trying to maximize positive emotion. Think about it, if we diminish human behavior to two factors, these would be it. Yet, we know that negative emotion is not necessarily inferior to positive emotion. It just serves a different purpose. Understanding this allows for us to use negative emotion in a way that helps us achieve our goals instead of hinders them. We tend to want to control negative emotion, but what if there is an easier way? We all can think of an incident in which we failed to control negative emotions. Control appears to be the number one tactic for approaching negative emotion in our society. What if there was an easier and better way? _____________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

The last few years have seen a self-care revolution. The term #selfcare has noble roots starting in the 1950s to describe permitted activities that patients were allowed to engage in to preserve their feelings of independence. Self-care has come a long way since then, and now it is impossible to scroll through any Instagram feed and not find at least one quote referencing self-care. With all this popularity, few have stopped and considered whether self-care is a valid strategy to improve #mentalhealth and life satisfaction. Several studies have shown that focusing on the self leads to less #happiness than focusing on others. Does this mean that we have been completely misled by popular culture? Partially, yes. Like many concepts in popular culture, self-care has grown into a trend and much of its beneficial aspects have been lost. As stated earlier, self-care originated in hospitals and was used as a tool to increase feelings of self-efficacy in patients. This is not the way that self-care is used today. Read full post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-self-care-needs-rebrand-olesya-luraschi/ _____________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

A few years have passed since Angela Duckworth's book on #grit was released, yet we have not needed grit as much then as we do now. This is a time when many of us are trying our best to be more gritty and resilient. One aspect of the #science on grit is that we were left with a feeling that it must be great to be a gritty person, but how does one become gritty? In this video, I will break down some of the science behind grit (also known as percervierience) and what we can actually do to become more gritty. ____________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

I think there is a very common misconception in what stress actually is and what it means. We often refer to stress as this cause of all things bad, but never really question what stress is and where does it come from in our bodies and brains? I explain here what stress actually is according to #neuroscience and how to use this knowledge to mitigate the stress in our lives. _________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

Culturally we have all kinds of preconceptions of what it takes to become a leader, to rise up in a leadership role. But what does it actually take to become a leader who can sustain their role over a long period of time? How to people actually gain power in a sustainable way? I review the literature on power and explain three key components to becoming a leader others trust. and champion. I also explain why we have our current stereotypes of leaders and why they are so harmful. Resources: Dr. Dacker Keltner The Power Paradox https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/dacher-keltner _________________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi

Given the current events on the West Coast in the US, I wanted to put out a video about depression and air pollution. The link between depression and air pollution is well studied. If you are feeling some depressive symptoms, such as sadness, lack of interest, and are in an area affected by air pollution you may be experiencing these symptoms because of air pollution. I provide some tips for dealing with air pollution-related depressive symptoms. Most importantly remember that if you started feeling this way with the decline in air quality, you will get back to normal when this clears. Please share this video so that we can spread this information! Studies mentioned in this video: Air Pollution and Daily Emergency Department Visits for Depression https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian_Colman/publication/41669085_Air_pollution_and_daily_emergency_department_visits_for_depression/links/5811fa5908ae9b32b0a37b8b/Air-pollution-and-daily-emergency-department-visits-for-depression.pdf Impact of air pollution on depression and suicide http://ijomeh.eu/Impact-of-air-pollution-on-depression-and-suicide,84931,0,2.html _________________________________________________________ About Me: I am a coach and Psychology researcher. You can learn more about me here: https://www.olesyaluraschi.com/ 👩🏻‍💻 Institute of Coaching, McLean, Harvard Medical School 🎓 Harvard University, Psychology Connect: Sign up for an intro coaching session: https://calendly.com/olesyaluraschi Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesyaluraschi