Weathering your emotional storm doesn’t end when the storm ends. There’s a process to healing & moving forward once the storm is over.
Organize Your Life, Find Your Joy?
Why are so many of us looking for ways to organize and clean up our lives. Why are so many of us disorganized?
Childhood Emotional Neglect
Childhood emotional neglect is a common occurrence that affects a person into adulthood. Those who’ve experienced it often have no idea it exists.
Five Signs of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence as a psychological theory was originally developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer. They described it as “the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth,” (Mayer & Salovey, 1997).
3 Steps Towards Creating Space for your Emotions
So, how do we begin to let ourselves slowly open up and share with others the emotions that have been hidden for so long?
Grief is like glitter.
You never know when grief is going to show up, sometimes in the most unexpected places, at the most unexpected time, and in the most unexpected ways.
Why is it so difficult to rest?
For some of us, it can be difficult to shut down our productivity mindset and rest. So what do we do if we suspect this drive to avoid rest has some unhealthy roots?
Anger Danger
“To recognize that my upsets come from myself is the first step to remedying them.” — Anthony De Mello Anger is a powerful emotion that can often lead to undesirable behaviors and regretful interactions. Like many of our emotions, they tend to arise uninvited and take over our headspace. Oftentimes, … Read More
What is your anger telling you?
Anger can feel protective, but it’s usually a sign of deeper emotions like sadness, hurt, and shame. Lashing out can be destructive.
What Star Trek Can Teach You About Your Psyche
In this analogy of the parts of the psyche, Kirk represents The Self, Spock represents logic, and Dr. McCoy represents emotions.