The Layla blog

This blog explores emotional awareness as a key step in understanding what you feel and responding with more intention and care. It offers practical reflections and gentle tools to help you notice emotions as they arise, making them feel less overwhelming and easier to navigate in daily life and relationships.

Personal uncertainty is a common experience, especially during life transitions, relationship changes, or periods of emotional stress. This blog introduces the SCAT method, a reflective approach that helps people navigate uncertainty.

Staying motivated toward long-term goals can feel exhausting, especially when progress is slow or setbacks arise. This article explores the psychology of motivation through Expectancy Theory and research-backed strategies that help you set meaningful goals, stay connected to future rewards, track progress, and navigate challenges with flexibility and self-compassion, without relying on willpower alone.

This article explores the connection between life stress, emotions, and psychosomatic pain, and how ongoing stress and fear of pain can unintentionally make symptoms feel worse over time. Drawing on research from psychology and health sciences, it introduces acceptance and cognitive reappraisal as tools for responding to adversity with more flexibility and care.

This article explores how the nervous system influences attention, and how different states of calm or activation can affect your ability to concentrate. Drawing on research and practical examples, it looks at the roles of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, how multitasking impacts focus, and gentle, body-based strategies that may help support steadier or more energized attention.

Experiencing subtle bias at work can be confusing, draining, and deeply unsettling. This article offers supportive insights to help you recognize common patterns of bias, understand your coping style, respond in ways that protect your well-being, and decompress after difficult interactions.