People-Pleasing: When Pleasing Becomes a Prison
The need to please often hides deep schemas. Understanding CBT mechanisms of people-pleasing to break free.
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Articles on relationship psychology, communication patterns, and conversation analysis.
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Toxic Perfectionism: When Perfection Destroys
Toxic perfectionism: adaptive vs maladaptive, cognitive restructuring, exposure to imperfection. Complete CBT guide with exercises.
Read article →Narcissistic Abuse at Work: Detect and Act
How to spot a narcissistic abuser at work, protect yourself from professional gaslighting, and take action with CBT tools.
Read article →Commitment Phobia: Why You Run From Love
Commitment phobia: understanding the flight from love. Abandonment schemas, avoidant attachment, progressive CBT exposure.
Read article →Common Phobias: Understanding and Treating with CBT
Common phobias and CBT treatment: graded exposure, cognitive restructuring. 80-90% recovery rate in 10-15 sessions.
Read article →Quiet Quitting: Silent Resignation & Psyche
Is quiet quitting a protection mechanism or a trap? CBT analysis of professional disengagement and practical tools.
Read article →Career Change: Overcoming the Fear of Change
Understanding the psychological mechanisms that block career change and overcoming them with CBT and ACT.
Read article →Nervous System Regulation: Resetting After Stress
Nervous system regulation after stress: polyvagal theory, window of tolerance, and practical exercises to restore balance.
Read article →Fawn Response: The 4th Trauma Response
The fawn response is reflexive submission confused with kindness. Understanding this trauma mechanism to break free.
Read article →Psychological Resilience: 7 CBT Strategies
Psychological resilience: 7 CBT strategies to bounce back after trauma. Cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, behavioral activation.
Read article →Self-Confidence After a Breakup: CBT Protocol
Rebuild self-confidence after a breakup with an 8-step CBT protocol. Cognitive distortions, behavioral activation, exercises.
Read article →CBT Anti-Anxiety Routine: 7 Daily Exercises
7 daily CBT exercises for anxiety. Structured morning/midday/evening program: body scan, defusion, tactical breathing, restructuring.
Read article →Mental Rumination: 6 Techniques to Stop
Mental rumination: 6 CBT techniques to stop overthinking. Watkins, mindfulness, therapeutic writing. Complete guide.
Read article →Save Your Relationship or Leave: Key Questions
Save your relationship or leave? Therapeutic questions for clarity, with CBT tools and Gottman's research.
Read article →Adult Abandonment Issues: Schemas and Healing
Adult abandonment issues: attachment origins, Young's early schema, vicious cycle, and healing through CBT and limited reparenting.
Read article →Compulsive shopping: understanding and treating the addiction
Compulsive shopping? Discover the mechanisms and CBT treatments. Regain a healthy relationship with consumption.
Read article →Slow dating: deep and authentic connections
Slow dating is revolutionizing dating in 2026. Depth and authenticity versus app superficiality. Discover how to build something real.
Read article →Chronic Loneliness: Breaking the Vicious Cycle
Chronic loneliness: mental health effects, cognitive mechanisms, and CBT strategies to break the vicious cycle of isolation.
Read article →Impostor Syndrome: Why Women Are Affected
Impostor syndrome affects 75% of working women. Understand the mechanisms, Clance's 5 profiles, and CBT tools to break free.
Read article →Savior Syndrome in Love: Understanding It
Savior syndrome in relationships: why you attract people to rescue. Karpman Triangle, Young's schemas, and CBT solutions.
Read article →Over 190 applied psychology articles
The Psychology and Serenity blog offers over 190 articles by Gildas Garrec, CBT psychopractitioner in Nantes. Each article draws on validated psychological models (Gottman, Young, attachment theory, CBT) to offer practical insights.
Couple Communication — Gottman’s 4 horsemen, the 5:1 ratio, stonewalling, NVC
Attachment — Anxious, avoidant, disorganized styles, path to secure attachment
Emotional Dependency — 10 signs, self-assessment tests, CBT strategies
Ghosting & Dating — Ghosting, breadcrumbing, curving, orbiting, zombieing
Manipulation — Gaslighting, coercive control, narcissistic abuse, psychological violence
Infidelity — Understanding, forgiving, trauma bonding, rebuilding
Anxiety & Stress — Relationship anxiety, burnout, rumination, insomnia
Jealousy — Pathological jealousy, retroactive, social media
Breakup & Grief — The 7 stages, no contact, relationship PTSD
Couple & Cohabitation — Moving in, arguments, libido, mental load
Parenting — Parental alienation, co-parenting, blended families
Young Schemas — 18 early schemas, cognitive distortions
Dating Apps — Mental health impact, paradox of choice, dating fatigue
Mental Health — When to consult, online therapy, CBT vs EMDR
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