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How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

by Larae Quy | Jun 9, 2025 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

At the FBI Academy, new agents like myself spent five months role-playing, alternating between being the bad guy who needed to be arrested and the good guy whose job it was to take scum off the streets. The role-playing was meant to instill confidence in ourselves...
3 Tips To Increase Your Ability To Become More Resilient

3 Tips To Increase Your Ability To Become More Resilient

by Larae Quy | Jan 8, 2025 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Resilience is frequently defined as our ability to bounce back from hardship like rubber bands that pop back to our original shape after being stretched. Likewise, most solutions imply that inspirational quotes, hand-holding, and large doses of sympathy will help us...
How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

by Larae Quy | Aug 20, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I worked as an FBI counterintelligence agent for twenty years and loved the challenge of being a spy catcher. However, when I was offered the position of spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, I jumped at the chance. It felt like the next step in...
4 Powerful Ways To Bounce Back After Periods Of Stress

4 Powerful Ways To Bounce Back After Periods Of Stress

by Larae Quy | Apr 28, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

Major FBI investigations are intense and usually slow-moving because of the case’s complexity. For example, I was among many agents assigned to interview witnesses after the terrorist attack of 9/11; supervisors told us to show up seven days a week and work...
Want To Unlock Your Resilience? Here Are 4 Effective Ways

Want To Unlock Your Resilience? Here Are 4 Effective Ways

by Larae Quy | Apr 25, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Over the past few years, I’ve read many ridiculous articles about how resilience means “bouncing back” from our obstacles—as though life is nothing more than jumping on a trampoline. To unlock our resilience, we must get serious and look for deeper healing than a few...
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