What looks like emotional avoidance may be an adaptive response shaped by culture, hierarchy, and the need to protect ...

People are often taught to suppress their emotions and get over it. Emotions don’t just disappear. Unexpressed feelings shape ...

Call it what you want—sustainable productivity, intentional living, healthy productivity: all of us want to be productive without burning ourselves out. But earlier this year, I was stuck in a ...

We have a natural tendency to distract ourselves from important or difficult tasks. So, how can we recognize our triggers and overcome procrastination? Negative emotions, like self-doubt, anxiety, ...

There are the good manageable emotions like the love you feel when you see your significant other or a piece of avocado toast. Then there are the really difficult to manage emotions such as the rage ...

We need to manage and control our emotions better–and by better, I mean by not managing and controlling, but by utilizing and exercising them. “I need to control my emotions” is oft-spoken self-talk ...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own and other’s emotions. People who are high in EI tend to have more satisfying personal and professional ...

Historically, emotions have been viewed as irrational, unstable or primitive—hardly the stuff of sound decision-making. Enlightenment thinkers like Descartes and Kant privileged reason as the highest ...