Emotions
Understanding and managing emotions is crucial for mental well-being. Our contributors delve into the complexities of emotional intelligence, helping you to identify, express, and regulate your emotions effectively. Learn how to cope with negative emotions, enhance positive ones, and improve your emotional resilience. Gain insights into how emotions impact your relationships and productivity. With better emotional management, you can lead a more balanced and harmonious life.
The Hidden Grief Keeping So Many People Stuck
When most people think about grief, they think about death. They think about funerals, condolences, and learning to live without someone they loved. But some of the deepest grief we experience has no funeral.
The Four Happy Hormones
Physical exercise is inherently linked to your mental health, which is why exercising can have a significant impact on your mood. When you exercise, you produce a range of hormones that make...
Why You Need to Feel to Heal and How Allowing Emotions Supports Mental, Emotional, & Physical Healing
Many of us grow up being told to “be strong” and “keep it together,” but suppressing emotions can have lasting consequences. This article explores the neuroscience and trauma-informed perspective on...
The Wisdom Hidden in Regret
What if regret is not something to avoid, but a valuable emotion that helps us understand ourselves and grow? This article challenges the idea that a life free from regret should be our ultimate goal and explores...
Emotions as Messengers and What Your Anger is Trying To Tell You
Most people treat anger as a problem. They try to suppress it, control it, avoid it, or get rid of it altogether. But what if anger isn’t the problem? What if anger is actually information? Think about...
The Alchemy of Worry – 95% of the Things We Worry About Never Happen
A study at Cornell University suggests that 95 percent of our worries never come to pass, yet the body still suffers the ghosts of futures that never arrive. There are seasons in life when the mind...
Why Slowing Down Helps When Emotions Feel Too Big
In my first year abroad, in 2019, I started on a solo trip to Bali, where I got my yoga teaching certificate. Almost two months later, I joined a travel group for a four-month consierge trip through East Asia...
How Mindfulness and Daily Routine Build Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience is often thought to emerge from life's biggest challenges, but its foundation is usually built in the quiet moments we repeat each day. Simple practices such as mindful breathing...
Raising Kind Kids in a Dysregulated World and Why Emotional Safety Matters More Than Ever
Children today are growing up in a world filled with stimulation, pressure, comparison, and emotional overwhelm. While we cannot remove every challenge they will face, we can give them something equally powerful...
Five Things to Do in the Next 10 Minutes When ADHD Overwhelm Hits
Can I ask you something? When ADHD overwhelm hits, how do you know? Not just mentally, or through spiralling thoughts, but in your body. Is your chest tight? Are you completely frozen? For adults with ADHD...
Finding Peace in the Zero Point Between Grief and Longing
Have you heard of the Zero Point Energy Field? Of course. Then go there, it said. In that field, there is no reason to do or not do. There is only being. Stand in the center. Observe. No analysis. No...
True Strength of Character and How to Combat the Negative thoughts to Fulfil your Exercise Goals
Strength is more than muscles, it is the discipline to overcome mental resistance and stay committed to your goals. This article explores how negative thoughts can derail your progress, why the battle within...
15 Tips on How to Use Music for Processing Emotions and Healing
Music reaches emotional places that words alone often cannot. From neuroscience to trauma-informed care, this article explores how music therapy helps individuals process emotions, regulate the nervous...
The Power of Pausing Before Reacting and Why One Breath Can Change the Outcome of Conflict
Most reactions happen before we even realise we’ve made a choice. In a world that rewards urgency, teaching ourselves and our children to pause may be one of the most powerful emotional skills we can develop.
The Hidden Reason Children’s Behavior Changes During the Last Six Weeks of School
Maya is six years old, and until recently, she loved school. She bounded into her classroom each morning with excitement, wrapped her arms around her teacher during greeting time, proudly completed...
