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 ...

The two-factor theory (aka Schacher and Singer theory) of emotion focuses on the interaction between physical arousal and how ...

We've all been there: A minor inconvenience explodes into a full-blown meltdown. But what if there was a way to manage those ...

It’s a hallmark of emotional intelligence, the sign of a well-adjusted mind: the ability to notice and label our emotions. Daniel Goleman, renowned emotional intelligence researcher, called this ...

Putting feelings into words (affect labeling) has long been thought to help manage negative emotional experiences; however, the mechanisms by which affect labeling produces this benefit remain largely ...