He just insulted you and you feel your blood pressure rise. For a minute, as your body floods with resentment, your chance of staying calm is slim. You take a deep breath. Turning away expressionless, ...

You know that feeling when everything hits you at once and your emotional thermostat just breaks? One minute you’re handling life like a reasonable adult, and the next minute you’re either crying in a ...

Controlling your emotions could also relieve your pain. An experiment where chronic pain patients learned to turn down negative emotions through a combination of sessions with an online therapist with ...

Your happiness and self-fulfillment might have a direct impact on how creative you are, according to new research from the ...

Jesse was always angry about something. Her first response about whatever happened was to become angry and play the victim role. She was unpleasant to be around, but she had a good heart. Most people ...

Recognizing controlling behavior in relationships can be challenging, especially when it develops gradually over time. Many controlling behaviors might initially appear as expressions of love or ...

It’s easy to remember the version of myself that used to unravel quietly. Not publicly, not in spectacular fits—but in smaller, subtler abandonments. I didn’t throw things. I disappeared. I’d mute ...

Coercive control creates invisible chains and a sense of fear that pervades all elements of a survivor’s life. It works to limit their human rights by depriving them of their liberty and reducing ...

This month’s executive function skill of focus is emotion regulation. As a reminder, executive function skills are brain-based skills that help individuals get things done. For many neurodivergent ...

But it’s always the best to control your emotions, and if you cannot control your emotions do it in a way that doesn’t lead to a yellow card. I think I said when I got my red card against Everton ...