Men are logical, women are emotional.
Men are more logical, women are more emotional. Have you heard this expression? Does it ring true? or false? Men and women might refer to their broad experiences of hormones and behaviour eg. testosterone leads to goal-oriented decision making, while oestrogen enhances the coding of emotion and recognition accuracy for facial expressions. However both men […]
Thing are not what they used to be!
Things just are not what they used to be! Do you ever find yourself feeling that the world was better, simpler, purer and somehow less messed up in the past than it is now? That could be your childhood or your grandparents time or even further in the past. Does it ever occur to you […]
On Being an Adult Child
It is a lovely thing to be an adult and have a strong relationship with one’s parents and know them more as friends. Growing to adulthood is a lot about gaining agency and objectivity. One is less the subject of your parents, and more the object of your own life. Yet in family, there forever […]
On Responsibility
In Victor Frankl’s work ‘Man’s Search For Meaning‘, he explores the question of what is the ‘meaning’ of life. Frankl explains, that life, like the game of chess, has no perfect move, only the perfect move for a specific player in a specific situation. Life has no ‘meaning‘ other than meaning derived from responding to […]
It’s My Birthday and I’ll Cry If I Want To
or ‘Why FEAR is Like Hot Sauce – Part III’ Recently my colleagues bought me cake and a signed card with lovely wishes for my birthday. A [false] social media alert had triggered their interest and they had pooled together to congratulate me. I stammered something about it not being my birthday but they clarified […]
On Distancing Techniques
Or ‘Why Fear is Like Hot Sauce – Part II’ I have come to be aware of something I do to avoid [what I perceive to be] rejection. I use ‘distancing techniques‘: words or actions to put a wall down or to establish distance between myself and others to make me feel less vulnerable. These […]
Why Fear is Like Hot Sauce
I have recently sought coaching and counselling for personal challenges and blockages. In exploring my own issues I have identified far beneath, buried deep down in my subconscious, a far more complex and insidious root of life struggles. FEAR. Fear of conflict, fear of failure, fear of what others think, fear of condemnation, fear of […]
Some Changes to Bear Skin
I have been making some changes to Bear Skin over the last few days. You may or may not have noticed if you visit the blog site itself. I have recently made the web url http://www.bearskindigital.com the primary domain of the page to reflect the blog name, and to distinguish it from other websites of […]
What is so great about Snapchat?
The story teller in me finds this review of Snapchat, and its power to threaten ubiquitous social media platforms such as Facebook, very interesting. As a neophyte Snapchat user what I can ascertain the key appeals to be, are: It’s ephemeral nature. Disappearing snaps and stories create a compulsion to share and view immediately. Stories. […]