Yesterday – I’m certain I don’t have to tell you – was a roller coaster of emotions. Most people I knew woke up in the morning, reveling in the likelihood of the historical day: electing the first woman to be [...]
It’s one of the worst feelings in the world: You hurt the feelings of someone you care about and you have no idea how to make it better. Maybe your stress level was running high and you took it out [...]
Emotions are important. A lot of people are taught to squash their feelings and push them aside, or to express them as minimally as possible, and I think the rationale behind this is that they’re pesky things that get in [...]
“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent [...]
One day, I had a conversation with an acquaintance. Out of nowhere, the tone of the conversation went from amicable to mean-spirited. One minute, we were friendly, and the next minute, he was lashing out at me for seemingly no [...]
You're on an airplane, and the person next to you is taking up more than his fair share of space. His legs are spread like he's home on the couch drinking a beer, his elbows keep knocking into you, and [...]