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"You'll watch an entire Netflix series even when the first episodes are slow because someone told you "it gets better" - But what if you looked at you

"You'll watch an entire Netflix series even when the first episodes are slow because someone told you "it gets better" - But what if you looked at you

Are you holding onto something that you no longer need? Here's a story that I love: A man on a long journey comes to a wide, rushing river blocking h

Are you holding onto something that you no longer need? Here's a story that I love: A man on a long journey comes to a wide, rushing river blocking h

Joan Halifax, a Buddhist meditation teacher and writer, says that when fear is powering our reactions, we typically adopt a hard front (the critical c

When we use a soft front and strong back to stay with the discomfort of difficult emotions, they tend to arise, do their little dance, then move on. W

Labeling emotions: You can explore a difficult emotion that arises by giving it a name or label (fear, disappointment, stress, shame, and so forth). G

Feeling emotions in the body: A useful mindfulness technique that can help you tolerate difficult emotions is to feel the emotion as a physical sensat

Soften–soothe–allow: A compassion-based process we call soften–soothe–allow can help you learn to make space for difficult emotions and even befriend

Become aware of a situation related to your experience of burnout that’s generating difficult emotions—having too much work to do, getting too little