Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and...
10 Things I Wish My Family and Friends Understood About My Anxiety and Depression
As someone who has suffered from mental illness for a long time, I understand people feeling weary about sharing their feelings with...
How to Feel Good at Work
The workplace is ripe for worrying. Faced with a combination of deadlines, meetings, and performance evaluations, many of us find...
How To Show Your Partner They're Loved, Based On Their Love Language
In relationships, people tend to show love to a partner in the way they’d personally most like to receive it. For example, those of us...
The Confidence Gap
For years, we women have kept our heads down and played by the rules. We’ve been certain that with enough hard work, our natural talents...
11 Little Mental Health Tips That Therapists Actually Give Their Patients
The goal of therapy is to give you the tools and strategies for navigating whatever is going on in your life—from stress or relationship...
The Benefits of Emotional Awareness
How does insight into our emotions help us? My research has shown that people would like to be able to choose what they become emotional...
Want to Be Much Happier? Science Says Always Do Any 1 of These 8 Things
1. Learn something new, even if it's stressful: Mastering a new skill means more stress now but more happiness later. If you are willing...
The Real Campus Scourge
Across the country, college freshmen are settling into their new lives and grappling with something that doesn’t compete with protests...
When is Stress Good for You?
Stress pervades our lives. We become anxious when we hear of violence, chaos or discord. And, in our relatively secure world, the pace of...
