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.
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.
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…
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.
Got triggered lately with your partner? Understand what happened—and learn how to talk through that painful episode with them in a way that brings you closer, not further apart.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all your unwanted feelings would behave themselves and go away? Unfortunately, they won’t! Do you have to keep them to yourself? Or can you share them with your partner anyway (and still avoid a blow-up)? Read on…
You don’t need to go off to an ashram for six months to discover your inner truth. You just need to ask yourself the right questions.
We’re Dr. 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 for 20 years. Besides being therapists, we’re co-authors and partners in life and love for more than four decades.