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People-Pleasing
When Your Need to Please Backfires

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on November 5, 2024

Tired of shape-shifting to keep everyone happy? Discover how the secure attachment 4S framework can help you stop people-pleasing and start building genuine connections.

Tired of shape-shifting to keep everyone happy? Discover how the secure attachment 4S framework can help you stop people-pleasing and start building genuine connections.

Boundaries
Avoid This Common Boundary-Setting Mistake

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on September 30, 2024

Explore the differences between setting boundaries, making requests, issuing demands, and complaining. These 6 steps can help your brain confidently set boundaries that stick.

Explore the differences between setting boundaries, making requests, issuing demands, and complaining. These 6 steps can help your brain confidently set boundaries that stick.

Relationships
How to Safely Connect With Others

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on September 12, 2024

Are you able to live in the secure relating sweet spot, even when your relationships become challenging? Here are seven tiny nudges to improve your relationships.

Are you able to live in the secure relating sweet spot, even when your relationships become challenging? Here are seven tiny nudges to improve your relationships.

Trauma
Can You Name Your Pain?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on August 29, 2024

Personal Perspective: How might you sit with uncomfortable emotions? Can you listen with curiosity and kindness, instead of judgment?

Personal Perspective: How might you sit with uncomfortable emotions? Can you listen with curiosity and kindness, instead of judgment?

Relationships
Are You Securely Attached to Yourself?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on August 13, 2024

When it comes to your relationships, regardless of your attachment style, can you find the "sweet spot" of secure relating? Tips to help you and others.

When it comes to your relationships, regardless of your attachment style, can you find the "sweet spot" of secure relating? Tips to help you and others.

Anger
Why Do We Feel the Need to Be "Good Girls"?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on July 28, 2024

Do you find yourself, even as an adult, still struggling to meet an impossible set of expectations? Where do these beliefs come from, and why are they so hard to escape?

Do you find yourself, even as an adult, still struggling to meet an impossible set of expectations? Where do these beliefs come from, and why are they so hard to escape?

Career
How Well Do You Thank Your Team?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on March 7, 2024

We all have the same basic psychological needs for respect. Yet, how we would like these needs to be met can make ensuring adequate recognition difficult for a leader.

We all have the same basic psychological needs for respect. Yet, how we would like these needs to be met can make ensuring adequate recognition difficult for a leader.

Career
Do You Wish You Had More Job Control?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on February 26, 2024

What can we do to improve low job control in our workplaces, even when our choices about the tasks we must complete are limited?

What can we do to improve low job control in our workplaces, even when our choices about the tasks we must complete are limited?

Career
Are You Struggling With a Lack of Role Clarity?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on February 20, 2024

When it comes to completing work, we all want to do well. Succeeding, however, depends on having a set of measurable outcomes that deliver value for our clients and organization.

When it comes to completing work, we all want to do well. Succeeding, however, depends on having a set of measurable outcomes that deliver value for our clients and organization.

Leadership
What’s the Business Case for Workplace Trust?

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on November 15, 2023

With the costs of burnout starting to add up to billions of dollars each year, leaders need to be more accountable than ever for the mental health and well-being of their people.

With the costs of burnout starting to add up to billions of dollars each year, leaders need to be more accountable than ever for the mental health and well-being of their people.

Burnout
How Psychological Safety Minimizes Psychosocial Hazards

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on June 21, 2023

With levels of worker burnout continuing to pose a challenge for most workplaces, new research suggests that fostering psychological safety can help address this workplace risk.

With levels of worker burnout continuing to pose a challenge for most workplaces, new research suggests that fostering psychological safety can help address this workplace risk.

Burnout
The Biggest Psychosocial Hazards Workers Are Facing

Michelle McQuaid Ph.D. on June 12, 2023

Worker burnout continues to pose a significant challenge for most workplaces with almost two-thirds of Australian workers reporting that they feel burned out.

Worker burnout continues to pose a significant challenge for most workplaces with almost two-thirds of Australian workers reporting that they feel burned out.