Most of us have jam-packed schedules, even on the weekends. We bounce back and forth between work, parent-teacher meetings, school and community functions, family obligations, and some form of social gathering or another. It’s not surprising that an overwhelming majority of adults in the United States suffer from stress. One of the major sources of […]
If someone you care about says “if you love me, then you would (fill in the blank),” you are actually hearing that person’s anxieties. Underlying these anxieties is a need to control the parameters of how love is shown. You want your partner to make you feel better by trying to communicate in the only […]
As strong, unpleasant emotional reactions to physical or psychological pain, anger and hatred share more dissimilarities than similarities, especially regarding their sustainability and intensity. Although anger and hatred produce the same physiological responses–increased heart rate and respiration, rising blood pressure, tensed muscles–anger is a co-occurring emotional response while hatred is an isolated emotional response. Anger […]
