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Many of us have a default strategy for handling difficult emotions: Wait them out, try to stay busy, or simply push through as best we can. In the short term, this strategy can work pretty well. Life goes on, the initial intensity of the feeling might fade, and the problem can seem solved. However, unprocessed emotions usually relocate rather than disappear. They can show up in ...

Many of us were taught how to manage our emotions, push through them, or wait for them to pass—but not how to process them. Yet emotions that don’t get processed can find other ways of getting out: physical tension in the body, avoidance behaviors, or just a general sense of feeling stuck without knowing why. The good news is that emotional processing is not a skill that we eith...

Many of us see emotions as irritating interruptions—signs of weakness that prevent “real” thinking and rational decisions. But this approach to our emotions may be costing us more than we know. What if these emotions we ignore hold vital information? Information that, once understood, can help us make better decisions, deepen our relationships, and clarify what really matters to...

Transpersonal therapy offers a holistic approach to psychological healing that includes the spiritual, existential, cultural, and meaning-making dimensions of human experience. Emerging from humanistic psychology and research into expanded states of consciousness, it combines established therapeutic principles with experiential practices such as mindfulness, somatic grounding, b...

How do you improve communication with your teenager? This is a question many parents ask themselves. Adolescence is a time of change and growing independence, when many young people prefer spending time with their friends and become more private (Smetana et al., 2006). The best solution may be not to ask more questions but to create opportunities for relaxed conversation. Commun...