Let's begin today's post with a quick emotion experiment: How are you feeling right now?(take a few seconds to answer it) Which emotions have you felt today/in the past few days?(take a few seconds to ...

Kevin, a counseling client of mine, shared that he recently found himself overwhelmed by a wave of emotions he couldn't contain. In front of his wife, Julie, and their two young children, he lost ...

Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative development. Whether children can use words like "happy" or "sad" to talk about emotions predicts how well they get ...

My Therapist Says is Elite Daily’s column rounding up life-changing therapeutic advice. In this edition, a 21-year-old college junior tells writer Anna Goldfarb how therapy helped her learn how to sit ...

People with high emotional intelligence clearly know what emotions they are experiencing at the very moment and are not afraid to openly communicate them. Instead of saying "I'm fine" or "I'm okay," ...

Here’s why your heightened emotional sensitivity is not a weakness, no matter what our modern emotionally flattened culture tells you.