When you reject your emotions, they grow stronger. Acceptance helps feelings soften and guides healthier choices.

You tell yourself this is what adults do. The tricky part is that it doesn’t feel like a choice. It feels like survival.

Emotional tears are a uniquely human behavior. Research suggests they evolved not for eye health but as a powerful social ...

Emotional numbing symptoms, in particular, are known to intensify this pattern of reacting sharply to negative stimuli and then shutting down emotionally. So, while it feels as though numbing is ...

Here’s a science-inspired and reflective tool to uncover the hidden emotional labor you do before you even say a single word.

When emotions start to spiral, most people try to suppress them or fix them immediately, but that usually just makes it worse. The five-minute rule therapists use takes a different approach entirely.

Have you ever wished for a guide to explore, understand, and master emotions? Consider your wish granted, as it is all in a new book from author Alaine Sonnenberg. In this segment, Alaine ...

You know all those people urging you to be happy under any circumstances? Do them one better: Take steps to cultivate a more meaningful existence instead. That means tapping into how you’re really ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.

Our society tends to treat feelings as inevitable and authentic. A new book explores an older understanding in the Bible and the church.

Revisiting a book repeatedly helps children develop a sophisticated understanding of what emotions look and feel like.