Posts By: Marie Well

Marie Well

I’m Marie Well, as in healthy well. At least, that’s my aim—to get well and make you well. We all have woes, from breakups to cancer to hoarder houses. I’m here to fix those woes—with tips mixed with my own tales.

Why read me? I’ve got a track record of fixin’ stuff. I’ve cured myself of anxiety. For a decade, I had anxiety attacks that struck almost daily. When not stricken, I’d write Voice articles, mostly on how to combat stress.

And then my world changed. One week went by with no attacks. A month. A year. Two years. And counting.

Now, I want to skyrocket our health—and bolster our creativity. After all, nothing soothes better than strokes of paint or tones of music or reps in a gym.

So, let’s get fit, creative, and well with Marie Well.

Change Our Bad Behaviors to Good

What bad behavior might all students want to change for the better? Time spent studying! That’s unless we’re already maximizing our study time.  Either way, here is a model to change our bad behaviors to good.  It’s a model that looks at changing behaviors by altering either triggers or consequences.  In this example, we’ll look… Read more »

ChatGPT Can Help Us Realize Our Dreams of a Ph.D.

What if we dreamed of getting a Ph.D.  but hit a wall and balked?  It’s the same with anything in life: sometimes, we hit a dead end and don’t know how to continue.  But one solution is to ask Chat GPT. But first, as a case study, my GPA fell short of the 3.8 required… Read more »

Ways to Achieve Professional Greatness

What makes us at AU special to potential employers?  Exposure to The Voice Magazine articles promotes our personal and professional development.  At my former brick-and-mortar university, many of its newspaper articles did not groom me for professional or even personal growth.  However, The Voice Magazine‘s articles delve into ways to improve our well-being and discover… Read more »

How do We Increase our Brain Power for Study?

Can brain power be increased?  Ask any Ph.D.  student, and they’ll give us a thumbs up and a wink.  It could be argued that there is no upper limit to brain power.  But does brain power burn calories?  Yes, brain power burns up to 20% of our daily energy.  And at the Ph.D.  level, who… Read more »

Every Little Bit Counts

Every little effort we make may be the tipping point to our dreams come true.  It all counts: every smile we give a stranger, attempt to solve a problem, and election-day vote.  And it all matters more than we realize.  Every little effort hits a tipping point where it cataclysmically launches us into blissful, winning… Read more »

How to Make Friends Everywhere we Go

What does it mean when we can’t make friends?  It means we need to be exposed to a course that shows an exact system for making instant friends everywhere we go.  I took that course!  It made going to the store no longer mundane and more like an invitation to an exciting party.  It’s a… Read more »

Use ChatGPT to Build a Course

I’m building a course using ChatGPT and want to show us how.  I plan on creating a four-hour video course within a year.  And that’s while working full time and taking three back-to-back two-month classes.  And then I’ll sell the course to a college or post it on Udemy.  We all can make courses that… Read more »

Why Psychologists are Wrong about People Pleasing

What is a pleasing personality?  I found an article that says a pleasing personality is encouraging, appreciative, non-judgmental, optimistic, sincere, dignified, generous, and so much more.  In my mind, that encapsulates what it means to be a people pleaser. But being a people pleaser has a bad rap in the psychological curriculum—wrongly so, in my opinion.  I… Read more »

Using ChatGPT AI to Succeed Brilliantly with a Disability

I just bought ChatGPT after reading half of a Kindle e-book on how to query the tool.  And I came across this neat feature where we can ask ChatGPT to tell a story about triumph over odds.  So, I thought, “Why not ask ChatGPT for disability-related triumph stories relevant to The Voice Magazine and AU… Read more »

Social Anxiety but Not Shy?

I found the best treatment for social anxiety—it’s a course.  It’s a social anxiety cure, in my opinion.  But we don’t need to have social anxiety to benefit.  So, by taking this course, we might instantly become more socially gifted even if we’re terrific socializers. What is social anxiety?  I’m not sure, but I know… Read more »