Psychology in Context Lab

I have found myself having feelings of guilt from not appearing to 'perform optimally' in my everyday life since becoming more isolated and emotionally affected by the pain and suffering of so many in the world. Feelings of guilt can help us navigate our social world and teach us how our behavior can affect others, but it can also harm us by negatively affecting us unnecessarily. Here is an interesting read. https://psyche.co/guides/endlessly-beating-yourself-up-wont-help-anyone

How to save yourself another pointless guilt trip | Psyche Guides Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Relax the rules you live by and set yourself free

Self-care

"You are far from alone feeling alone." (Halpert, 2020) The feeling of loneliness is subjective and comes from “a feeling of being excluded and of existential angst,” (Halpert, 2020) This article has some great content and links that offer up some validation for those of us who may have struggled before COVID restrictions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/smarter-living/how-to-manage-your-loneliness.html?smid=url-share .

How to Manage Your Loneliness You are far from alone in feeling alone. Here are some ideas to help.

Sometimes the messages we tell ourselves or have perceived over time keep us from self-care. I share this well-written article about self-compassion.
https://psyche.co/ideas/self-compassion-is-not-self-indulgence-heres-how-to-try-it?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f7fe02d15e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_03_26_01_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-f7fe02d15e-71841692

Self-compassion is not self-indulgence: here’s how to try it | Psyche Ideas Contrary to popular belief, it’s not self-indulgent to practise self-compassion. In fact, it helps you to care for others

Mindfulness and meditation both help calm the nervous system, which helps us recover from stress and to be more resilient against future stress. True, it's not for everyone -- but maybe it's for you? .

Student Support & Development is promoting Mindfulness vs. Meditation this Recharge Week with a new video. Do these mean the same thing and how are they useful in the life of a college student/adult learner? Watch here any time: https://bit.ly/3cas6F8

We are launching the Trauma-Informed Emergency Management Graduate Certificate program this fall! Dr. Corlew is the Coordinator for this program.

Here's our page: https://www.uma.edu/academics/programs/tem/

And here's a press release:
https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/uma-to-offer-graduate-certificate-in-emergency-management

Trauma-Informed Emergency Management - University of Maine at Augusta Ready to help your community and its emergency preparedness workers? The Trauma-Informed Emergency Management (TEM) program is Maine’s first graduate program in the interdisciplinary field of emergency management, and the country’s only emergency management graduate program that is trauma-inform...

Dr. Kati Corlew is part of a multi-state NSF grant. Teams in this grant are working on different types of data modeling to predict the movement of species due to climate change. Kati and her team, including the students in the PiC Lab, will build connections with farmers and study communications. More to come!

New data science project to model range shifts of hundreds of plant and animal species in New England - UMaine News - University of Maine In response to a changing climate, populations of plants and animals move to more hospitable locations. Predicting where species will end up, and how New England farmers and rural communities need to plan and adapt accordingly is the focus of a new interdisciplinary research initiative led by the Un...

On April 16th, while our paper was still in progress, Dr. Corlew and the student research assistants in the PiC Lab presented on the connections we were finding between climate change and COVID-19.

This is a zoom recording, so please note that informal chatting starts at about the 3:00 minute mark, and the presentation starts at about the 10:00 minute mark.

Things to Come Health Equity Series presentation Spring 2020 Dr. Kati Corlew and student research assistants Keeley Moseley and Nicole Brennan present on the qualitative climate change research conducted by the Psychology in Context Lab. Although study participants were discussing climate change, many of their words resonated with the current COVID-19 pandemi...

Fingers crossed! The PiC Lab team just submitted an article to the Journal of Humanistic Psychology for a special issue on COVID-19. This paper explores the similarities we found between our focus groups' worries about climate change and the unfolding pandemic crisis. Is this a glimpse of things to come? More importantly, can we learn some lessons from COVID-19 and do better with climate change? We sure hope so!

Our second focus group in Presque Isle (and last of all the focus groups for this project) is tomorrow night. This has been such an amazing journey. I can't wait to get back out for the community events this spring!

Presque Isle residents discuss potential effects of climate change in The County Thanks to a statewide project aimed at climate change awareness, people in Aroostook County have an opportunity to share their thoughts, concerns and real-life observations about global and local trends.

Exciting thoughts....

So many of these are, um, impractical for much of Maine, what with the foot or more of snow on the ground :D , but some are useful

Gardening Tips For Fall And Winter If you find yourself hanging around the house this holiday weekend, it might be a good time to catch up on chores around the garden.

As the holiday season starts to ramp up, here are some simple ideas to reduce our use of plastics

4 Ways to Reduce the Amount of Plastic You Use What if we’re thinking about plastics the wrong way? What if the problem isn’t that our recycling rate is so low, but that we produce too much plastic?

Generalizing individuals into groups might help you but hurt them

Stereotype Threat One advantage of stereotyping is that it is very useful for rapidly assessing social information you need in a very large amount. And in a practical sense, it also helps you avoid being victimized in

Panic, depression and stress: The case against meditation Meditation and mindfulness have become the new aspirin, a Buddha pill without side effects – but not all their effects are positive, argue two psychologists

is responding rather than reacting when arise. ~ ~

Read about this large composting and recycling facility in rural Tennessee! I got to tour UMaine's composting facility a few months ago. They have a "digester" too -- 18 days from garbage to compost! Have you had the opportunity to tour any of Maine's composting, recycling, or garbage facilities? If so, what did you learn?

Why You Don’t See Recycling Bins at Dollywood Well, this is a blog topic I never thought I would be writing about. Let’s talk about trash. Yes, you read that right. Now 90% of you will probably leave this page right now wondering why I’m talking about trash. But for the other 10%, read on to learn how Sevier County, Tennessee, is home

This article touches on a topic that is relevant to many Mainers - food sovereignty in Maine.

The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles Creek beds are bone dry and once-gushing springs are reduced to trickles as fights play out around the nation over control of nation’s freshwater supply

A few simple things we can do... while also working on cutting the plastic pollution at the source!

Artist Anna & the Willow fills the forest with life sized sculptures made from woven willow
located at Woodland Trust - Skipton Castle Woods

Why Keeping Mature Forests Intact Is Key to the Climate Fight Preserving mature forests can play a vital role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere, says policy scientist William Moomaw. In an e360 interview, he talks about the importance of existing forests and why the push to cut them for fuel to generate electricity is misguided.

10 Benefits of Using Public Transport Top 10 Benefits of Using a Public Transport System such as Metro, Subway or a Bus.

Offshore windfarms 'can provide more electricity than the world needs' Supplies from turbines will prove to be the next great energy revolution, IEA predicts

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A lot of people ask me what they can do as individuals or families. Small changes can add up in terms of your personal carbon footprint. Personal changes are not *the only* answer, but they are part of a larger solution which must involve change at *every level of society,* individuals included.

I suggest adding one or two changes at a time until they become habitual, then add more. Trying to change everything at once often leads to burnout and reverting back to previous lifestyle habits. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

Neat find about what a person could do about Climate Change. Thanks for sharing it Andrew.

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