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by christalwang 3y ago
I made a few small changes to current, but not everything. And yes, I like that example of low-/high-noise. We're going to look into this in the coming weeks as we revamp our website.
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by christalwang 3y ago
We're currently applying, thank you!
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by christalwang 3y ago
Thanks for this comment—you've nailed it. The service we're providing in it's very nature is not medical and instead encompasses support functions like accountability, celebration of the member, helping the member feel "
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by christalwang 3y ago
We definitely are not trying to pass as a medical service. However, we do our due diligence to make sure we have medical staff on board to advise us on our protocols, services, train our staff, supervise our staff, and to stand in if there
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by christalwang 3y ago
Definitely, and we hear you. We're excited for our upcoming pilot with more rigorous study. Also, as mentioned in a different thread, we're definitely not a medical service nor replacement for medical service. If members are looki
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by christalwang 3y ago
We love Focusmate!!
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by christalwang 3y ago
Yes! There are tons online, many great quality ones too. For us, we offer robust and reliable service with coaches who we have vetted, are supervised, and are accessing professional development opportunities on regular basis. In addition, o
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by christalwang 3y ago
Oh, duh. Yes. My bad. I guess an assistant of some sort? Or task swapping with someone else? My roommate cooks and I clean, so at least it's only 1 out of 2 things I don't like to do that's covered.
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by christalwang 3y ago
Hi yes, I am still here. (1) We currently only have self reported symptom reduction (83% state symptom reduction within 6 weeks) that we've been using as a proxy so far, but we know we need more. (2) We are actually in the process of d
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by christalwang 3y ago
Thank you for pinpointing this. I re-read many times, and I agree with you. I've just re-written the whole section with our Lead Coaching Psychologist, Xenia.
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by christalwang 3y ago
Resonate.
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by christalwang 3y ago
In essence, practicing positive psychology, to us, means that we focus on the positive attributes and strengths of an individual - not on their pathology as in "traditional" approaches. It also means that we focus on helping our m
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by christalwang 3y ago
I laughed out loud at the end. That's a good idea. https://www.understood.org/ actually has a good example of this (reduce-motion mode) We'll look into this for sure—I'd love a confetti mode.
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by christalwang 3y ago
Thank you for explaining more. Positive Psychology as a field is very wide, with different schools of thought within it; the most important aspect to us being that we focus on the Strength-Based vs. Disability Model of Neurodiversity. The s
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by christalwang 3y ago
Shimmer is NOT clinical and we do NOT provide licensed medical services. We are most definitely not trying to substitute a real doctor. Full stop. We hope that is clear in all of our communications and website, and do NOT try to obscure tha
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by christalwang 3y ago
Thanks for this perspective. I generally try to make it at least not distracting for most people, even though I know no 1 style will work for everyone. Yes, I hear your point on neutral tone as well, I'm a bit dramatic at times. I am t
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by christalwang 3y ago
My savior! Thank you!
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by christalwang 3y ago
100%
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by christalwang 3y ago
It really depends on the person. It's the case for some folks but definitely not all (not myself) and in that case, it's important to address the root cause. Our team actually advocates for mixed treatment when relevant (while ack
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by christalwang 3y ago
It sounds like you're maybe looking for a virtual assistant of some sort? I recently heard of a company Athena (more geared towards founders) and "The Doers" (more geared towards women business owners, I always get their ads
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by christalwang 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback! I'm the author here (Christal)...unfortunately I definitely have ADHD! Many of our members and team need the emojis for the visual relation but I definitely see your point. I will tone down the emojis and make
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by christalwang 3y ago
Can you expand more on your perspective on positive psychology?
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by christalwang 3y ago
Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement: unlike most types of therapy, coaching is goal-oriented / solution-oriented and requires the member to be in a good enough space to want to look into the future & pu
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by christalwang 3y ago
Appreciate this; curious your perspective on best-in-class solutions (aside from stimulant drugs) for insufficient brain energy? I'm always looking for holistic solution sets. Also some of our members (for various reasons) can't o
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by christalwang 3y ago
Appreciate this question, it's one we've gotten a lot and quite frankly I agree we haven't nailed the best way to articulate it. To answer a few of your questions... - We don't use psychologists or psychotherapists as th
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by christalwang 3y ago
Updated! Now you can cmd+F and find it. Thanks for this suggestion.
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by christalwang 3y ago
Thank you for this comment and the text. I'm also curious about where this text comes from, I'd love to read the rest of it. And yes, I agree. ADHD is not a "mental" problem, and cannot be "coached" away. ADHD
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by christalwang 3y ago
Oh, this is a good idea re: "pricing"; right now it's on the homepage under the section "Flexible plans built for every brain". Thank you for this—will be adding today. Hm, I'm not able to replicate the blank s
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by christalwang 4y ago
Thank you for sharing! I've done these 2 of Russell Barkley's free courses: http://www.continuingedcourses.net/active/courses/course109.... http://www.continuingedcourses.net/active&#x2F

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