Managing Emotions During Life Transitions
Even positive life transitions can feel emotionally disorienting and overwhelming. Some people expect themselves to feel grateful, excited, or confident during major life changes, only to find that they feel anxious, irritable, emotionally reactive, disconnected, or sad instead. This can be confusing, especially when the transition is something you wanted. But emotional messiness during periods […]
Understanding Grief
Most people think of grief as something that follows a death. And of course, losing someone you love can bring a depth of sorrow that is hard to put into words. But grief is not limited to death. Grief is the emotional response to any meaningful loss. It appears when something that mattered deeply to […]
Rethinking Anger
When was the last time you got angry? Like really angry? What did it feel like in your body? How did you react? We all have a different relationship with our anger. Some of us shy away from it and some of us love expressing it. Some people resort to violence while others turn it […]
3 Ways to Regulate Your Emotions
Emotional regulation is an incredibly important practice that allows individuals to learn to identify their emotions, increase emotional resilience, lower unpleasant emotions, decrease emotional vulnerability, and better cope with strong emotions as they come. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) teaches how emotions work and provides skills on how to better manage emotions, work with them instead […]
6 Ways to Better Manage Your Emotions
There are times when your emotions can feel overwhelming, confusing, or difficult to manage. However, emotions are a part of being human and you can’t push them away or make them disappear. In fact, when you try to ignore them, they often get more intense and unmanageable. Emotion regulation skills need to be taught or […]