Anxiety is the feeling of feeling unsafe, the sense that something, you’re not sure what, is soon going to harm you. This emotion is too critical for survival to simply be told to go away. But if you get in touch with its purpose, it doesn’t have to hinder you.
Emotional safety is vital for both psychological and physical well-being. Here are four tips for creating an emotional safety net in your life.
Thanksgiving is nearly here. How can we make sure that we actually enjoy our holiday and make it a time to reconnect, be thankful for one another, and not let our differences pull us apart? By lowering the emotional temperature.
Emotional safety is the basic building block for all healthy human relationships. It’s a critical element for happiness and vital for psychological and physical health. Yet more and more people seem to be lacking it.
Having adult ADHD means always having to say you’re sorry—not just for your forgetfulness, lateness and slip-ups, but for having intense “dysregulated” emotions that cause you pain and sometimes go out of control. But your feelings deserve more than just “regulation.”
Like the car insurance commercial says, there are times when life comes at you hard and fast! So how can you become more emotionally resilient? Here are three ways that you may not have thought of…
Does your otherwise sane and loving partner have a tendency to verbally lash out at you when they feel anxious and insecure? Here’s what it means – and what to do about it.
How do we change what’s “not working” within us? Listen as Ann Weiser Cornell, developer of Inner Relationship Focusing or IRF, explains how we can create lasting and transformative change through a profound process of compassionately listening to whatever is inside us.
Who wouldn’t want to be emotionally successful, able to meet all the emotional challenges of life? But maybe we’ve got emotional success backwards. Maybe the best way to become emotionally successful, at least for many of us, is to become successfully emotional.
Mindfulness and mindfulness meditation have been shown to provide enormous physical and psychological benefits. But there’s a quicker and more direct path for developing emotional self-awareness and self-healing.
One of the hardest things to do in a relationship is to have a “difficult conversation” where you address a highly contentious issue between the two of you. Here’s some instructions and a road map for getting through them successfully without running off the road.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to make it easy to have a difficult conversation. But if you understand what makes them so difficult, you’re much more likely to have them go well.
We’re Helene Brenner and Larry Letich. Helene is a licensed psychologist in private practice for more than 30 years. Larry is an individual and couples therapist. Besides being therapists, we’re co-authors and partners in life and love for more than four decades. 