The Layla blog

We all face moments when our actions don’t match our intentions. This guide breaks down the science of self-restraint and offers practical, compassionate strategies to strengthen focus, follow-through, and wellbeing.

Emotions shape how we move through each day, offering signals about what matters most. This guide explores five supportive, science-backed steps to help you understand, notice, and respond to your emotions with greater ease.

This article shows how everyday stress—from school deadlines to relationship struggles—can be better managed once you learn to recognise its source and how it affects you. It outlines two main coping approaches and explains how choosing between problem-focused or emotion-focused strategies (or both) can help you respond to stress with greater flexibility and emotional balance.

This article explains how everyone has a natural decision-making style — whether you tend to decide quickly or take your time — and how understanding that style can help you make choices with greater calm and clarity. It offers practical tools to help you avoid impulsive decisions or excessive overthinking, so you can make better, more values-aligned decisions in life.

This article defines Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as the ability to recognize your own emotions, understand where they come from, and choose thoughtful responses — while also tuning into and empathizing with the feelings of others. It outlines four core skills (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) and gives practical, gentle steps to improve EQ over time.

This article explores how small adjustments in posture, eye movement, and other aspects of body awareness can significantly boost memory and learning. It offers practical, science-backed strategies to help readers study more effectively and retain information with greater ease.