What Does It Mean to Grieve Well?
What does it mean to grieve well? How can we stay in relationship with these inevitable and natural experiences of loss, in the most life-affirming and healing ways? Here are a few suggestions.
What Does It Mean to Be “Emotionally Literate”?
Developing our emotional literacy is a significant aspect of becoming more resourced to have difficult conversations, but what does it actually mean to have emotional literacy? Here are 5 ways we can work with our emotions.
From Wallowing and Venting to (Self) Empathy
We can relate to wallowing and venting with compassion, consciousness, and clear intentions, recognizing them as temporary aspects of a developmental journey, or we can find ourselves stuck in unconscious, repeating patterns that ultimately do more harm than good.
Learning the Art of Emotional Alchemy
Here are six things you can do to metabolize, process, and transform your emotions into energy, vitality, and empowerment.
Your Anger is Welcome Here
Unbridled self-expression with no care for the impact, is abuse. Endless care for the other, with no authentic self-expression is codependent and enabling. We need to find the healthy balance between expression and care.
The Art of Suffering
Our rage, our sadnesses, our crises each bear the seeds of our personal transformation.
Share the Emotional Load
Our strength and resilience is amplified by the quality of our relationships.
How to Process Your Emotions
Processing, digesting and metabolizing our emotions is not the same thing as just talking about them, and often just talking about them can be a way of distancing from them.
Feeling it, Fixes it
Although we often want to move away from unpleasant feelings to avoid them, remember that often simply feeling it, fixes it.
Emotional Strength Training
What do you do when your feelings get hurt? Well, let me tell you what didn’t work for me recently, and what did. Building emotional strength takes intentionality and practice.