Introducing URIDU, our new Project to Empower Rural Women in Developing Countries
URIDU is a non-profit, non-partisan project we launched in December 2015. Our goal is to empower women in developing and emerging countries. Continue reading ...
10 Rules for Life
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A Buddhist‘s Way to calm down your Critical Inner Voice
Learn how to calm your critical inner voice, the part of your personality that is always busy confronting you with your faults in character or telling you what you did wrong. Continue reading ...
10 Tips to beat Springtime Lethargy
According to studies many persons are affected by springtime lethargy. Here's what you can do about it. Continue reading ...
The 20 ultimate Tips for a functioning Relationship
26/02/15 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Is it up to us whether our love works for the long haul or is it simply fate? Check out 20 tips to make make your relationship work. Continue reading ...
Spring Cleaning – Decluttering satisfies and releases Energies
05/02/15 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Happiness
Ever tried an „energy“ spring-cleaning per Feng-Shui? Never heard of it? Then it’s about high time! You’ll see, it is fun and in all respects worth it. Continue reading ...
The Fear of Terrorism - How does it affect us?
21/01/15 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Crisis
People who are beset by anxiety disorders or depressions will be further de-stabilized by these events. But then many people thus far not suffering from these problems may possibly now sense their own nervous tension or agitation, even concrete anxiety symptoms: insomnia, disproportionate strong reactions to stress situations, a subliminal testiness, problems with concentrating . . . whatever. Continue reading ...
How to gain Vital Energy by clearing out Social Contacts
Although it may not be easy: I can only recommend a regular review of all personal social contacts. Here's why. Continue reading ...
A New Year – a New Life? Positive New Year’s Resolutions and how one actually keeps them
05/01/15 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personal Development
Self-control is obviously the most important prerequisite for hanging tough with good resolutions. Breaking with potentially bad or unhealthy but longstanding habits requires lots of will power. Continue reading ...
Lessons for Life I learned from Cats
11/03/14 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Life
Learning by imitation and also by interacting and truly getting involved with cats provides us with any number of opportunities for the progression of our own personality. Continue reading ...
How to guard against the Empty Nest Syndrome
24/02/14 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Why do so many parents have such a difficult time to let go of their offspring when the time comes? Continue reading ...
True Love isn't Found. It's Built.
03/02/14 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Love: the ever-changing feeling. Is it at all possible to even influence it, i.e. its permanence? Oh yes, we can! Continue reading ...
Thirteen Tips for stressed-out Mothers
27/01/14 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Education
In case you are a stressed-out mother (or father) you may find these suggestions to be helpful. Continue reading ...
Even more tips to fight your Seasonal Affective Disorder
As we face the threat of the blahs during the dark-cold season it is now high time to fight them with a few new tips from us! Continue reading ...
Anorexia – when the Soul is starving
07/08/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Crisis
Anorexia (Anorexia nervosa) usually begins with the desire to be – or to become slim. At one point the starvation diet gets out of control and starts to dominate the entire life. Continue reading ...
Dreams, nightmares and their meaning
12/07/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Psychology
Many people wonder about the meaning of their dreams and many researchers have of course already literally forever dealt with the subject of sleep and dreams. Continue reading ...
Is that truly my dream career?
27/06/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Career
Legacies can very much dominate a person’s own life and obviously also effect career decisions without him/her being aware of it. Continue reading ...
Why women suffer from a distorted self-image
It is well known that women in many respects tend to assess themselves much too critically and negatively - and that includes their appearance. Continue reading ...
The new iPersonic Health Coach eBook
11/06/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Health
Our new iPersonic HealthCoach eBook is developed with the objective in mind to process general scientific knowledge on the subject of health and happiness for the benefit of individual personality types. Continue reading ...
Career Guidance in a Global World
At iPersonic we believe that career guidance should be made available to everyone. A fulfilling career is the cornerstone of a fulfilled life. Continue reading ...
Understanding Paraverbal Communication
27/05/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Communication
The spoken word represents only one of three levels composing communication – and by far not the most important! Continue reading ...
The end of your life will reveal whether you knew who you were
The end of your life will reveal whether you knew who you were Continue reading ...
The "Be Spontaneous" Paradox
07/05/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
There are situations when one partner wants something from her partner without clearly expressing it and instead expects that he/she guesses what he/she is supposed to do. Continue reading ...
Can a Trauma be inherited?
31/03/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Crisis
Traumatic experiences such as hunger or sexual abuse do not only become a part of our memories but also of our gene pool, as well. Continue reading ...
The Fairy Tale about Spontaneous Sex
19/03/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
One of the primary reasons responsible for a depressing relationship affliction is the myth that sex should occur spontaneously in order to be “good”. Continue reading ...
Will a fling kill your relationship?
14/02/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
As strange as it may sound: For some couples a fling can cause the transition to something better. Continue reading ...
Life at a Crossroads
29/01/13 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personal Development
Sooner or later and more or less frequently all of us find ourselves on those life’s crossroads when we have to decide on an alternative and at the same time bid farewell to other opportunities. Continue reading ...
Start the New Year with a Letter to Yourself
A letter to yourself is a ritual that can be well justified in a variety of situations but it fits especially well into this time of letting go and beginning anew. Continue reading ...
Children need Fairy Tales – a Plea for Santa
Just because life is often bewildering, the child needs even more to be given the chance to understand himself in this complex world with which he must learn to cope. Continue reading ...
Tough Time for Realists
Looking at it from an evolutionary point of view and for all intents and purposes it is an evolutionary irony that Realist’s virtues in many ways today turn out to be rather more disadvantageous for their life satisfaction. Continue reading ...
13 new Tips to beat the threatening Seasonal Affective Disorder
I have yet a few more tips designed to help you face the blues brought on by the cold outside! Below you’ll find an entire assortment of new suggestions for making the best of autumn. Continue reading ...
Animals as Therapists: how Cats, Dogs and Co. benefit the Soul
02/11/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Psychology
As a psychologist I occasionally resort to four-legged assistants when working with clients when the occasion arises – and usually with decidedly positive results. Continue reading ...
13 Tips for Fighting Seasonal Affective Disorder
A great way to beat the seasonal blahs is being consciously aware of fall and winter’s beautiful aspects and to celebrate them regularly. Here are a few ideas for “fall-“ and “winter celebrations”. Continue reading ...
Flirting Online will ruin your Relationship
16/10/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Cyber affairs are a frequently underrated threat to relationships – the standard excuse of those caught red handed is hapless John’s already quoted as: “Nothing really happened!” Obviously that is incorrect. Continue reading ...
Is the Internet a Relationship Killer?
13/09/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Particularly women whose partner more or less regularly surfs porn web sites frequently feel insecure and subject to a comparison they cannot satisfy. Continue reading ...
Women and Depression
03/09/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Psychology
The fact that worldwide twice as many women than men suffer from depression has been known for a long time. Experts have speculated about the possible causes for this unequal distribution among the genders for almost as long. Continue reading ...
Little Secrets Sustain Your Partnership
21/08/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Which secrets are constructive and benefit the relationship and which ones are those that are destructive and jeopardize love? Continue reading ...
Why You Should Start a Love Diary
07/08/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
A love diary helps you to better understand your partner – sometimes it is easier to put things into writing about oneself that otherwise may be difficult to express. Continue reading ...
How to Have a Healthy Argument and Save Your Relationship
30/07/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Many people do believe that happy couples don’t argue or at least less frequently than unhappy couples. That is incorrect. Continue reading ...
Communication Skills Part 2: Pay Attention, catch the Meaning!
Active listening is a good method of catching the real meaning of a conversation. Continue reading ...
How to Dominate your Inner Drivers
Today we deal with enabling you to put your personal inner drivers in their place when they tend to overdo driving you. Continue reading ...
Communication Skills Part 1: You don’t hear what I say . . . or vice versa
It is always interesting to analyze one’s own communication strengths and weaknesses and possibly tweak them a little to be more successful in everyday life and become more confident in dealing with others. Continue reading ...
Bringing Body and Soul into Harmony
25/04/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Happiness
Numerous studies point out that this body/soul interconnection can actually be used to influence one’s own mood and even one’s performance. Continue reading ...
Stress and Relationships Part 2
Many problematic relationship situations are rooted in a simple misunderstanding: One partner feels stressed but does not communicate it sufficiently while the other one does not register it right away or even not at all. Continue reading ...
Stress and Relationships
Everyday stress experiences cumulatively have an impact on us and that includes an impact on our relationship. Continue reading ...
My Blind Spot - The Difference between Self-Awareness and External Perception
How much and to what extent we are even capable of truly assessing ourselves? Where do we see ourselves as we actually are and how others perceive us? And where may we possibly even be incapable to see ourselves as we really are? Continue reading ...
How to quickly ruin even the best Relationship
16/02/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
The so-called Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent communication patterns with a sufficiently destructive influence that almost pre-ordain the demise of even the most perfect relationships. Continue reading ...
Are introverted and extroverted Partners a Match?
Relationships between extroverts and introverts are not all that rare. Seriously, it can work - even in long term relationships. Continue reading ...
A Word about Panic Attacks and Anxiety Disorders
25/01/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Psychology
A few simple explanations dealing with the subject of anxiety, anxiety reactions and anxiety symptoms. Continue reading ...
What is Personality?
Read about the iPersonic Typology, Sigmund Freud’s Trichotomy, Reiss Profiles, Cattell’s Factor Model and the Big 5.
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Do you know your Drivers?
02/01/12 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personality
The “Drivers” are a model for inner patterns, one could also call them motivators: they influence our thinking, feeling and behavior. Continue reading ...
The Effects of Ex-Partners on new Relationships
11/12/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
What are the effects of the “ex” on the new relationship? And how can a “second wife” or “second husband” deal with them? Continue reading ...
My 10 Rules for Life
26/11/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Happiness
If you can manage to turn these ten happiness building blocks into the foundation of your thinking and behavior, you can “construct” a very happy life. Continue reading ...
Are you a Steve Jobs personality?
15/11/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personality
Steve Jobs was a Groundbreaking Thinker. And what about you? Are you a Steve Jobs personality? Find out! Continue reading ...
Can Relationships with Major Age Differences work?
07/11/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Generally these relationships do require lots of understanding and tolerance of each other because beginning with a certain age difference the partners essentially belong to different generations. Continue reading ...
Is your Relationship stuck in a Communication Loop?
In case you get your relationship caught in a communication loop, there's good news for you: it can be broken at any time! Continue reading ...
How to cope with a difficult Mother in Law
12/10/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
25 – 30% of all women regularly report that their partnership is suffering from a difficult relationship between themselves and their mother-in-law. Find out why. Continue reading ...
How to make a Borderline Relationship work
Every partner of a borderline must rigorously ask him/herself whether he/she is willing and able to permanently deal with this very special situation without hurting him/herself or his/her partner. Continue reading ...
Here's why we need a World Introvert Day
20/09/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Introversion
World Introvert Day is held on 2 January each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to better understand and appreciate introverts. The first World Introvert Day was held in 2011. Continue reading ...
How Idealists can find Meaning in their Lives
The primary aspiration of all Idealists is self-discovery and self-actualization. If you are an Idealist, life represents one continuous search for a deeper meaning: Who am I? Where am I going? What is my destiny? This already describes the most important pillar of your personal concept of happiness: The meaning of life! Continue reading ...
Idealists need a Vocation, not a Profession
You should ask yourself whether your today‘s profession satisfies you in this regard or whether there is need for a change. Continue reading ...
About the iPersonic Personality Test
Our free personality test is extrapolated from a typology which was originally developed by the psychoanalyst Carl Gustaf Jung and later differentiated by Isabel Meyers and Katherine Briggs. Continue reading ...
Introverted - and happy in love
Partner Search for Introverts. Introvert loves Extrovert – is that going to work? How the Introvert can make Things easier for his Extroverted Partner. Continue reading ...
Introverted – and happy in your Job!
Self Doubt and Perfectionism – a difficult combination. Introverts are misunderstood and unappreciated. Typical job related Communication Problems among Extroverts and Introverts. Continue reading ...
Introversion - a Health Risk?
Reduced Life-Satisfaction – Introversion’s Down Side? Introverts cope with Stimuli and Stress less well than Extroverts. Continue reading ...
How love rituals can help you improve your love life
03/06/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Love
Learn more about the role played by rituals in our every day lives including our partnerships. Continue reading ...
40 Tips for a Happier Life
I have summarized the 40 most important insights on the subject “happiness” in an abbreviated format in the following “checklist”. Continue reading ...
I don't want to live anymore
21/04/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Crisis
When a person says: “I don’t want to live any more”, he or she usually means: “I don’t want to live like this any more!” Continue reading ...
Give your life a meaning
As the only living creature aware of its finiteness, and so as not to despair, the human being must give its existence meaning. Continue reading ...
Am I a burnout? What can I do about it?
Typical indications for a developing burn-out-syndrome and what you can do about it. Continue reading ...
Do what you enjoy doing!
Enthusiasm represents the ability to meet the world with excitement and energy, to be totally involved with what one happens to be doing at the time. Continue reading ...
How career profiling can improve your job satisfaction
In addition to your personal partnership, your profession should ideally be the second sustaining mainstay in your life.
It may be sufficient for you to change certain aspects of your profession.
Continue reading ...Gratitude is a key to happiness
All it takes is a few minutes of our time to envision that things should not be taken for granted and are just ordinary but that they are a gift, a gift not granted equally to many people in other places. Continue reading ...
How problems can make you feel happy
Whoever is never confronted with obstacles or difficulties also never gets a chance at a very important happiness component: The sense of having faced and mastered a challenge. Continue reading ...
Salutogenesis: Why it is healthy to give your life meaning
24/08/10 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Psychology
The more pronounced a person’s sense of coherence the healthier he/she is or the more speedily he/she is going to get well and stays that way. Continue reading ...
How to start living your personal, happiness-supporting lifestyle
Today, much is known about why some people are happier than others, and why some people are even able to overcome serious misfortunes with relative ease and return to a full life albeit with limitations. Continue reading ...
How to fight procrastination
The technical term for the tendency to continuously postpone things is procrastination. Learn how to fight it. Continue reading ...
Analyzing your self-image (Self Confidence, Part 4)
People with low self esteem usually store an entire litany of major and small transgressions in their head that they can hold against themselves on the first opportunity. Continue reading ...
The Benevolent Inner Observer (Self Confidence, Part 3)
Learn about your Benevolent Inner Observer and how he can help you to comfort you. Continue reading ...
Dealing with negative thoughts (Self Confidence, Part 2)
Give your feeling of self worth a new, positive direction by interrupting your own innermost destructive dialogue with yourself and making it more constructive. Continue reading ...
First impressions in a job interview: why they really matter
19/05/09 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Career
Human Resources directors and job coaches have emphasized the importance of the first handshake and eye contact on the occasion of the first job interview for years. We only have one tenth of a second to catch the interest of our counterpart. Continue reading ...
How to find a job that makes you happy
Do you know which job would make you truly happy and which obstacles (inwardly or outwardly) keep you from doing just that? Continue reading ...
Learning to trust yourself (Self-Confidence, Part 1)
Self-confidence, the feeling of self-worth, self-esteem – in the final essence they are all rooted in self-respect and the appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses making us the person we are. Continue reading ...
How the iPersonic Compatibility Color Coding System works
31/03/09 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personality
A few words about our Compatibility Color Coding System and the principle behind it. Similar colors stand for similar personality types. Continue reading ...
Intuition – Knowledge on a Gut-Level
13/03/09 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in: Personality
Some easy exercises to train your intuition in order to access your subconscious information storage. Continue reading ...
Discover your Strengths
A simple exercise for you that is designed to help you look at yourself a little more affectionately and not through those grey tinted shades. Continue reading ...