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Dr. Anthony Silard explores what you can do to establish more robust relationships in your life, after a year of distancing.

Our new video on 5 Ways Excessive Technology is Harming Your Relationships, Part 3 Watch here.

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5 Ways Excessive Technology Use is Harming Your Relationships

5 Ways Excessive Technology Use is Harming Your Relationships, Part 2, is part of The Art of Living Free series. Dr. Silard shares about the negative impact our smartphones have on our relationships, and what we can do about it. Watch here! Read More
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Developing the Relationships We Need to Make it Through the Pandemic

Relationships are under siege. Loneliness is skyrocketing to record proportions. Over 3 in 5 Americans were lonely in January of last year, before the pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns turned our attempts to create any semblance of a social life upside down.   Also before the quarantines, our average number of close friends whom we could talk with about […]

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The Problem with Social Distancing

This article has been coauthored by the psychologist Mora Zaharya, who can be reached at www.tratamientosonline.com  Social distancing has become the new global norm to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Yet we must be careful with the words we use, as they have meanings that impact our emotions, thoughts and actions.   Social Distance is Not Emotional Distance  In actuality, what we […]

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5 Ways Excessive Technology Use is Harming Your Relationships— and What You Can Do About It

At this stage of our collective history, there seems to be consensus that the overuse of our phones and devices is causing our close relationships to atrophy. Yet many of us still do not understand how this is happening. In this article, I will attempt to shed light on how our excessive reliance on email, texting and other forms of text-based communication (IMs, […]

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A Critical Danger to Our Way of Life: Insularity

I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.  — Seneca  One of my former students once told me that he did not make a single phone call to his fellow MBAs during his entire two-year program. All communication was by Facebook, text message and Whatsapp.   With a constant queue of people […]

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How to Renew Your Most Important Relationships During the Pandemic

Since we have been spending most of our day indoors, we’ve had no choice but to face up to the reality of what our social lives had become before the pandemic. We finally have the time to reflect upon how the richness, regularity and connectedness of most of our friendships have taken a nosedive ever since the release […]

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Anthony Silard’s latest article in Psychology Today | Renew Your Most Important Relationships During the Pandemic

Anthony Silard’s article was published in Psychology Today. Please read it here.

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Why the Pandemic Has Become Social Comparison on Steroids

You may have heard something along these lines many times from the people around you in the past few months: “It’s so sad what’s happening in ______ (Italy; New York; US; Spain).” Many of us consciously or subconsciously seek out a country or a region of our own country where COVID-19 is wreaking more damage than where we live, and then feel pity for […]

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Anthony Silard’s Article in Psychology Today | How to Be Lonely without Becoming Depressed

Anthony Silard’s article “How to Be Lonely without Becoming Depressed” was published in Psychology Today. Find it here.

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