When you reject your emotions, they grow stronger. Acceptance helps feelings soften and guides healthier choices.
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.
There are times when my emotions really get in my way. When I perform on stage, fear of failure makes my heart race and throat clench. Or when a friend says something hurtful to me, I can’t stop ...
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 ...
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.
People often say that your feelings are “written all over your face.” That’s because our facial expressions are a main way we communicate emotions, whether that means smiling and crinkling our eyes ...
This lesson is designed for pre-K through second grade and it's a social-emotional lesson so all about feelings. But, of course, any learners are welcome. We're happy to have you. So if you have a ...
Our society tends to treat feelings as inevitable and authentic. A new book explores an older understanding in the Bible and the church.